On 16/05/07, Sheer El-Showk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
hi Sheer. when i used the Mac installer's GUI diskutil tool to resize my
MacOS X partition, i didn't yet have GNU/Linux installed, and i was
re-installing OS X so that i could get rid of a lot of [useless-to-me]
software. so in other words, i:
-deleted all partitions on my HD
-created a 20GB partition at the beginning of the drive for OS X
-created a 1GB partition for Debian's /boot
-created a 100GB partition for Debian's /
-created a ~17GB partition for sharing data between Debian and OS X.
-installed a very stripped-down version of MacOS X onto the 20GB partition
(removed most of the iLife apps, printer drivers, extra languages, etc)
-installed Debian Etch onto the 1GB and 100GB partitions
so, i'm afraid i don't have any experience resizing an HFS+ partition
containing data that i want to keep. one would think that the tool would be
smart enough to re-arrange blocks, prevent you from shrinking too much, etc.
MacOS X can natively read ext2 partitions, so why not format your "share"
partition as ext2 rather than HFS[+]? doing that will reduce the likelihood
of OS X or GNU/Linux mucking up the partition, as ext2 is free and open and
has been around for years.
hope that helps!
-Nick
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