Removing/Resizing YDL?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Pillsbury:

Charles Pillsbury wrote:
> This is probably more an OS X question... I've yet to get YDL working
> perfectly on my G4 iBook and I'd like to reclaim more of the linux
> partition to use in OS X.  I'm fine with re-installing YDL but would
> LIKE to avoid having to reinstall OS X to do so. IF I adjust the OSX
> Partition within OSX is this likely to cause any problems? is it
> likely to cause any problems in just linux, OS X or both?

As Dr. Hacker points out, you cannot resize Mac partitions without using 
third-party tools. One such tool -- untested by anyone on this list -- 
is VolumeWorks by SubRosaSoft ($50):

<http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?&products_id=431>

I wouldn't trust it, to be honest. Your best bet is to do a full backup 
of both your Mac OS X and YDL partitions, and do a "nuke and pave" 
reinstallation.

As a workaround, you could try ext2fsx. ext2fsx is a Mac OS X extension 
that allows you to mount and read/write ext2 partitions in Mac OS X (YDL 
uses the ext3 filesystem, which is ext2 with journaling tacked on). This 
will allow you to use some of your YDL space to store documents and 
files, especially those you want to access from both YDL and Mac OS X. 
ext2fsx is reasonably stable, and no one I know of has reported any 
problems with non-beta versions:

<http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/>

Good luck!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint DOT macdonald AT sbcglobal DOT net>