On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 11:55:36PM +0200, Pander wrote: > Sven Luther wrote: > >On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 06:16:55PM -0400, Bradley Alexander wrote: > > > >>I have a Powerbook G3 Pismo, which dual-boots Mac OS9 and Debian. I > >>inherited this laptop in this state, which is fine with me. > >> > >>I run Linux 99.9% of the time, but the drive is partitioned with 5GB for > >>Linux and almost 6GB for Mac OS. I would like to resize the drive and > >>give the additional 4GB to Linux. What have others done to resize their > >>drives? > > > > > >There should be support for hfs+ resizing in parted or any libparted using > >tool. The same tool should be able ro resize ext2 or something such, > >altough > >you could simply add an additional partition if needed. > > > > Talking about HFS+ partitions, I have one which rarely mounts as > read-write, usually is is read-only file-system because there is > apparently someting wrong with the partition. It suggests running fsck, > but that results in this: > > # fsck /dev/hda14 > fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) > fsck: fsck.hfsplus: not found > fsck: Error 2 while executing fsck.hfsplus for /dev/hda14 > > This there a way to do a fsck (perhaps in OSX)? for PPC partitions?
Look if the hfs support in libparted includes filesystem checking support. Friendly, Sven Luther