Sub Rosa Volume Works

[J.T.Blaylock]

If you have a disk utility like Norton or TechTool, running that might  
have fixed the problem after you ran VolumeWorks.

J.T.
On Jun 20, 2004, at 4:53 AM, Richard.Gill@math.uu.nl wrote:

> Dear YDL friends
>
> Dynamically resizing OSX partitions sounded too good to be true,
>
> http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php? 
> cPath=88&products_id=431
>
> but I paid up 50$ to give it a spin, and at the same time to put
> YDL 3.0.1 back inside my white iBook2 14in (it got wiped out when the
> dreaded iBook motherboard bug hit me). Of course I made a back-up  
> first:
> I used Carbon Copy Cloner
>
> http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
>
> to make a bootable copy of my single partition OS X internal hard disk
> on an external Firewire hard disk (LaCie). I find that CCC often stalls
> part way through the cloning, but you can just quit, and restart at the
> point where it left off. It seems to be a bug in the LaCie drive's
> driver. It helps to use ProcessWizard
>
> http://www.lachoseinteractive.net/en/products/processwizard/
>
> to give CCC maximum priority over other processes running at the same  
> time.
>
> I rebooted OS X from Firewire and used VolumeWorks to shrink the OS X
> partition on the internal hard drive. It seemed to work fine, but
> afterwards, I could not reboot from the hardisk!!!
>
> In fact I could not even remount the internal hard disk, when booted
> from firewire: I got an error message about an incorrect block  
> count!!!!
> So I wiped the whole thing clean, created new partitions on
> the hard drive, and used CCC to put my system back in place on the  
> iBook,
> cursing silently...
>
> Installing YDL was uneventful and swift. It does help to know that
> anaconda can't figure out by itself what kind of monitor the iBook has.
> You have to point it to apple -> ibook2 12, by hand. This is pretty
> amazing when you are used to soporifically uneventful Fedora or Redhat
> installations on intel, where I never have to tell anaconda anything
> about the hardware at all (but maybe I was just lucky).
>
> Choosing which apps to install, I do as follows. I ask for a custom  
> install
> and then ask for the standard collection for each and every group of
> applications, including all the developer groups. But I skip all the  
> server
> stuff. What I want is a kind of extended workstation. At the end I  
> check
> that latex and associated tools have all been included too, since that  
> is
> the main thing I use in my work.
>
> I have the OS X application ext2fsx so that I can mount ext3 partitions
> from OS X:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
>
> It was even possible after that to rename the yellowdog
> root partition from "/" to something more appealing, from
> the OS X commandline.
>
> There is an option in ext2fsx to make an ext3 partition invisible.
> I discovered however that when you have done that, you cannot
> mount the partition again from the ext2fsx application! Fortunately
> you can do it from the command line. One should read the "Readme"
> carefully which comes with ext2fsx.
>
> Richard
>
> http://www.math.uu.nl/people/gill
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