partition resizing

[dotgl1970]

On Friday 14 January 2005 11:34, Daniel Gimpelevich wrote:
> Wow. I had never heard of iPartition until just now, nor was I aware of
> the patched version of parted on the Gentoo LiveCD. So at the MacWorld
> Expo, when Prosoft Engineering told me that their new product Drive Genius
> is the only program that resizes HFS+, I only told them about VolumeWorks.
> They still didn't believe me. I think I might go back there today and tell
> them about these other programs. So there are exactly four that will do
> this job:
> 1) VolumeWorks:
> <http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=431> 2)
> iPartition: <http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.html>
> 3) Drive Genius: <http://www.prosofteng.com/products/drive_genius_info.php>
> 4) Gentoo parted: <http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/ppc/2004.3/livecd/>

Thanks a lot:
Because is job that I am doing for a friend I am going to try first with 
Gentoo parted.

Do you have experience with this one? Or somebody else that you know?

>
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:43:23 -0600, dotgl1970 wrote:
> > 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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