Reclaim hard drive space

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

	Pdisk is not non-destructive. Any attempt to merge all the 
partitions back into one using either pdisk or Apple Utilities include 
an unavoidable reformat of the entire drive.

	In my experience as a Mac OS, Linux and Mac OS X "support guy" I 
have not come across any non-destructive HFS friendly partitioning 
utility. The general and unfortunate rule is, on a somewhat rough basis, 
only users of the infection called windoze are entitled to that kind of 
luxury. I never trusted the non-destructive partitioning idea anyhow, 
always recommended against it.

	Just my two cents. Regards,...



		Juan.

On Wednesday, July 10, 2002, at 07:39  PM, Keary Suska wrote:

> If you simply want to reformat the second partition, that's a simple 
> matter.
> However, if you want to combine the two partitions, you need a
> non-destructive partitioning tool that can expand partitions. I don't
> believe pdisk is non-destructive, and I don't recall a utility that is 
> HFS
> friendly. IIRC, Hard Disk Toolkit (a commercial product) can do what you
> want, but last time I looked your drive had to be formatted and 
> partitioned
> by the product first. This may have changed. I thought I heard rumors 
> of a
> utility equivalent to partition magic (PC product) that was HFS 
> friendly,
> but I couldn't substantiate them.
>
> Keary Suska
> Esoteritech, Inc.
> "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
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