partmap 15 limit

[bruce woller]

mascarasnake:

Who(what)ever performed this partitioning decided to leave 512*512 
sectors(quarter of a Megabyte) between partitions - is this a FWB or 
Apple trick? This is curious because the next partition doesn't start 
on a even hexadecimal boundary.  I think if you attack this disk with 
pdisk you can specify that partitions are contiguous which would reduce 
your partition count by 4.  However if the current partitions contain 
existing data you are at risk of probably losing it all.  If this is a 
virgin disk you can hack away with pdisk without fear.

If you lose your data I'll type it back in for you it's only 80G.

G'luck,
Bruce
On Thursday, June 3, 2004, at 07:51  PM, mascarasnake wrote:

> Just a quick question.
> I've been following the 15 partition thread for a while now. I've 
> reformatted my main drive now in several different ways and keep 
> getting extraneous free parts that will take me above the 15 part 
> limit.
>
> thinking about YDL 4 on this machine
>
> I'm running 10.3.4 on a B&W G3 rev2, all disks running on the internal 
> ATA bus(s)
>
> here's my part map for the drive I want to install YDL 4 on:
>
>    1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                     63 @ 1
>    2:       Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                 56 @ 64
>    3:       Apple_Driver43*Macintosh                 56 @ 120
>    4:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                 56 @ 176
>    5:     Apple_Driver_ATA*Macintosh                 56 @ 232
>    6:       Apple_FWDriver Macintosh                512 @ 288
>    7:   Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh                512 @ 800
>    8:        Apple_Patches Patch Partition          512 @ 1312
>    9:           Apple_Free                     19369792 @ 1824      ( 
> 9.2G)
>   10:           Apple_Free                            0+@ 19371616
>   11:            Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_3  41680896 @ 19633760  
> ( 19.9G)
>   12:           Apple_Free                            0+@ 61314656
>   13:            Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_4   6029312 @ 61576800  
> (  2.9G)
>   14:           Apple_Free                            0+@ 67606112
>   15:            Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_5  88499744 @ 67868256  
> ( 42.2G)
>   16:           Apple_Free                            0+@ 156368000
>
> my question is can I combine the empty (9, 10, 12, 14, and 16) without 
> killing it all?
>
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