data partition

[Jason Stevens]

Ron,

I'm glad you're still working on this. I've already partitioned my drive
to try to share a volume between OS X and YDL, and am just now getting
into the nitty gritty. I did not manage to find a way to save the OS X
installation, so I just reformatted. Disk Druid did not offer a way to
resize the OS X partition, so I didn't venture any further with that.

Anyway, using my OS X installation CDs, I created a Mac OS Extended
partition and installed OS X on it. I created a large Mac OS Extended
partition for use in sharing files between Mac and Linux. Finally, I
created a Free Space partition for Linux and installed YDL on it.

Here's where things stand at the moment: I can't seem to access the
large volume I created from YDL (even without MOL running). It is
recognized as /dev/hda3, but I can't mount it.

Do I need to set a mount point for this volume in YDL and assign
user-level read/write permissions to it before I can access it in YDL?
Or was Mac OS Extended perhaps the wrong format to choose (HFS+, per se,
is not an option--I think the only options are Mac OS Standard, Mac OS
Extended, Free Space, and UNIX)?

I'll keep working on this, but I'll look forward to receiving any
suggestions you might have for now.

Thanks again,

Jason

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:47, Ron Smith wrote:
> That is a good question. I set up the partition when I prepared the 
> drive for the initial installation of YDL. You can definitely do it if 
> you are willing to reinstall OS X, but there may be a utility that will 
> allow you to "stretch" or "shrink" an existing partition (and keep the 
> existing OS X install), but I have not been able to find one. If you 
> manage to figure this out how to add a shared partition without 
> damaging OS X or Linux, please let me know and I will include it with 
> the instructions I hope to write before the end of the week.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion/encouragement to write some instructions. =)
> 
> -Ron
> 
> On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 04:23 PM, Jason Stevens wrote:
> 
> > Since I don't have such a "shared" partition now, is it necessary to
> > create it within OS X (and therefore lose the current OS X
> > installation), or can it be done within YDL?
> 
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