partitioning recommendations

[Roger Scow]

I successfully used iPartition on my iBook.  I have a big HDD (80 Gb ), 
so let linux have 10 Gb.

iPartition was slooooow.  But it appears to have worked flawlessly.

YMMV, and back up first.

Roger

On Aug 27, 2004, at 12:27 PM, nicole wrote:

>
> On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:10 PM, Arrigo Benedetti wrote:
>> I am going to install YDL 4.0 on a 15'' Powerbook. Since I do not 
>> want to reformat the Mac OS X partition,
>> I have looked into non-destructive repartitioning tools, and I have 
>> found some reviews of iPartition. Has anyone
>> in this list used it? Are there other/better options?
>> Are there any guidelines/HOWTOs about how many partitions to create, 
>> how big, etc.?
>> I am familiar with Linux on x86, but new to PPC...
>>
> Personally, I am not familiar with iPartiton but have used Volume 
> Works 
> (http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=431) 
> several times without any data loss (but I still do a complete backup 
> each time just in case).  I usually run it off an external firewire 
> drive I have OS X installed on.  You can also order a bootable CD from 
> them.
>
> nicole
>
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