partition resizing

[a monkey]

It's as simple as this:

1) Get a Gentoo Minimal LiveCD
2) Boot from it, and type "parted"
3) Type "print" to see a list of partitions
4) Use "resize" to resize the desired partition

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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