partition resizing

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On Friday 14 January 2005 08:13, Cian Duffy wrote:
> iPartition. Its not free and it takes some work to set up (under OSX).
>
> Cian
>

What about parted

Somebody used parted before??
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=123556&highlight=parted

http://www.macuarium.com/foro/index.php?showtopic=66946&pid=656199&st=0&#entry656199


> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:38:05 +0100, Andrea <situa at email.it> 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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