partition resizing

[a monkey]

Man, that's really weird. I got mine from linuxiso.org, don't know 
which, but it was slightly outdated. It successfully resized my hfs+ 
partition.

dotgl1970 wrote:

>On Saturday 15 January 2005 12:59, a monkey wrote:
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>>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
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>By the way I tried in two chances without success:
>
>" no hfs+ partition support " 
>
>I have had used two different Gentoo LiveCDs, if you know a successful one, 
>please tellme where I can find it
>
>Thanks
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>>Andrea wrote:
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>>>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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