Subject: Re: Non-Destructive Partitioning?
From: Robert Fout (rfout@damien.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 27 2000 - 20:45:31 MDT
FWB Hard Disk toolkit can resize and/or delete your HFS partitions well,
I've used it many times.
Once it's resized, you can delete that partition, create a new
Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition, boot Linux, and /sbin/mke2fs /dev/<proper device>
(I think that's the command)
and edit your /etc/fstab to get /usr to match the proper device where the
new ext2 partition is.
Bob
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Robert Fout
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> From: "Waldo L. Jaquith" <waldo@waldo.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:27:06 -0400
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Non-Destructive Partitioning?
>
> Folks,
>
> I've got my Rev. A iMac (4GB drive) humming along just fine with CS1.2. But
> when I partitioned my drive for YDL about a year ago, I only gave it 1GB, as
> I didn't know if I'd want to keep it. Here I am, running a server and never
> using the Mac side, save for occasionally, thanks to MOL.
>
> So, I've erased most everything from my HFS side of things, and that's only
> using up 1.5GB now. So I'd like to take another 1GB and shuffle it over to
> the YDL side of things.
>
> I've optimized my drive and moved everything to the beginning. But now
> what? I'm hoping that I can just lop off the last 1GB, make it a new
> partition and assign that to /usr or something. Drive Setup doesn't want to
> hear anything about it, though, and I don't know if it's a good idea to go
> chopping up an HFS drive with Linux tools.
>
> I don't mind having to wipe the whole HFS partition and reinstall MacOS.
> But I certainly can't wipe my YDL partition. Anybody know how I should do
> this?
>
> Thanks, folks.
>
> Best,
> Waldo
>
>
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