On 25 Νοε 2006, at 12:51 ΜΜ, Ludovic Rousseau wrote: > On 25/11/06, Andy Szekely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am getting a new iMac in the next several months. Does Boot >> Camp allow me >> to resize my HFS+ partition an install a linux distro without have >> to start >> OS X from scratch. I would ideally like to get everything up and >> running >> fully in OS X before I start to mess around with Linux on the new >> system. > > You do not need Boot Camp to install Linux or resize your disk. > > You can resize any partition (and not just one as limited by Boot > Camp) by using the Mac OS X command line tool "diskutil resizeVolume". > > For example see [1] or "man diskutil". > > If you do not repartition the disk yourself before installing Mac OS X > and then have the default partitioning you could use Boot Camp to > resize an existing system (without having to reinstall Mac OS X). So > in your case you can use either Boot Camp or diskutil resizeVolume. > > Bye, > > [1] http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/ > nondestructively_resizing_volumes > > --
For me, the command line utility didn't allow me to precisely define the paritition size - instead I had to create with bootcamp, install under linux (and define the partitions there by hand) and perform synchronize with the rEFIt utility. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
