partition resizing

[Derick Centeno]

As usual one can never have enough information regarding this subject. 
Here are two links which may be useful before you execute a decision:

A bit of background on partitioning from the YDL FAQ website:
http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Installing+YDL/How+should+I+partition+my+disks%3F

Another view discussing HFS/HFS+:
http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Configuring+YDL/Mounting+a+Mac+partition+in+YDL

Best wishes...

On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 08:38, Andrea wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> I've just visited YDL site, I've read some tutorial papers on the site,
> but there is something I don't really understand: if I have my MacOS X
> system running on a ppc (in my case this is a iBook G4) i really CAN'T
> RESIZE the only existing partition? I've read that disk partitioning
> strictly takes to a complete data loss: in other words, the installer
> deletes the partition table and creates a brandly new one.
> All others distributions I've used in the past always let me resize a huge
> partition to create some space for my Linux installation, WITHOUT
> erasing the existing systems.
> Any of you has ever had this problem? I would prefer to avoid
> erasing, re-installing and re-tune all my MacOS X (it works perfectly, so
> why should I change anything??) to add a linux partition.
> 
> How can I just resize my existing HFS+ partition?
> Are there any (opensource!) tools to make this job? Also a command
> line utility would be good....
> 
> thanx for your attention,
> hope to reiceve soon some news
> 
> Andrea Vagliengo
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