Hi Nick, So I started trying this last weekend but I got a little scared and stopped half-way. The disk utility in the boot up disk seems to let you resize your hard partitions but it didn't seem to put any constraint on size or know anything about the amount of free space available. This made me worry that its not resizing the partition but its actually going to wipe everything out and repartition. Did you actually use it to reduce the size of your partition without effecting the data on it? I'm also a bit worried because that tool sees my linux partition as "free space" (though the linux swap partition is seen strangely enough). I really don't want to reinstall OS X since I've spent a while customizing it and I don't feel like redoing all that.
Has anyone been had and resolved the error I mentioned in my previous email when using diskutil to resize their partitions? thanks, Sheer On 5/8/07, Nick Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/05/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Has anyone been able to repartition their drive from Linux? I have an > > MBP C2D with a journaled HFS+ partition, an ext2/3 linux partition and > > a swap partition. I want to setup a new unjournaled HFS+ partition > > from which I can share my data between Linux and OS X. Since I'm out > > of space on my hard disk I have to repartition the HFS+ partition into > > two HFS+ partitions (one journaled and one not). When I try to do > > this using diskutil in OS X it fails for some strange reason. Here's > > a sample transcript: > > hi Sheer. try booting into your MacOS X install disc #1. there's a disk > utility with a GUI that i used to resize my HD. it's accessed through one of > the menus along the top of the screen. by using the "live DVD" install disc, > you shouldn't have any problems moving files around in the filesystem. let > us know how you go. cheers, > -Nick > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mactel-linux-users mailing list Mactel-linux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mactel-linux-users
