partition resizing

[Steven Didier]

On 1/14/05 6:15 AM, "Derick Centeno" <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:

> 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+d
> isks%3F
> 
> Another view discussing HFS/HFS+:
> http://www.sharplabs.com:8668/space/Configuring+YDL/Mounting+a+Mac+partition+i
> n+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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I've used Volume Works to safely resize hfs+ partitions. It cannot resize
ext partitions but will allow you to slide your existing partition to make
room.  Have yet to suffer a data loss but as always if you have data you
can't afford to lose back up!
Hope this helps!