Uninstall: how to get my partition back
Ted Goranson
yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 8 Jan 2003 02:47:31 -0500
>On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:57 PM, Ted Goranson wrote:
>
>>>I installed YDL 2.1 on my Pismo as triple boot. Worked well, but
>>>now I am rearranging things. YDL goes on an old desktop and I wish
>>>to reclaim the disk space on the Pismo.
>>>
>>>I have a 20G disk that was divided equally among OSX, OS9 and YDL.
>>>My disk utilities can "see" the boot partition of 10M that I was
>>>easily able to make HFS+. How do I get the missing 6G back without
>>>trashing my other partitions?
>>>
>>>Best, Ted
>>
>>Using an old copy of Hard Disk Toolkit, I was able to "delete" the
>>SV partitions, but cannot figure how to turn these into HFS+
>
>Having not tried this myself, I strongly recommend a very healthy
>back-up before trying it:
>
>Now that the linux partitions are deleted, you _should_ be able to
>open Disk Utility and create a new HFS+ partition in the now empty
>space.
Don't think so. At least not without the warning that all info on all
partitions will be erased.
Best, Ted
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Ted Goranson
Advanced Enterprise Research Office