Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
Yep. Everyone knows that. However, the driver would be a way to sport software RAID throughout all OSes (Linux, MacOS, Mac OS X, etc.). There's also the feature to decrypt/encrypt the drive at the block storage driver level in the ROM, outside of the OS. I like that one, but this brings up a question: Can linux encrypt a partition and mount the encyrpted partition at a paticular mount point? - Joaquin --- Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Generation NeXT wrote: This is the resizer tool: http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html This is the general formatting, software RAID support: http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html Can LinuxPPC do RAID? The Mac drivers are wierd in Linux has done software raid for some time, even in kernel 2.2. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcr=1w=2 __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
That would depend though on what MOL access. Does MOL have a virtual drive, or does it access the whole drive. Will low level memory mapped routines work? In otherwords does MOL work raw, or is this run in a protected environment. Can programs access partition map through MOL? --- Bob Sloots [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where did you read that? On the site in the section System requirements (down, on the right). Maybe they updated this recently... Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in Classic, MacOnLinux (probably not?) or if it's in Carbon? I would expect it to run in MOL, cause MOL just runs the MacOS in a Linux-window. Bob. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
This is the resizer tool: http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html This is the general formatting, software RAID support: http://www.fwb.com/html/hard_disk_toolkit.html Can LinuxPPC do RAID? The Mac drivers are wierd in that they load at startup before the OS is loaded. Each writable volume has a driver for its volume, which is loaded prior to loading the supposed system file. Theoretically, FWB's RAID could work. They also have a neet feature to encrypt the entire drive, so one must enter a password to decrypt it before the OS loads. Though this can get dangerous if somehow the driver gets corrupt. However, this would make the Mac one of the most secure computers regardless of OS running (if it is shut off :). --- Ernst Persson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where did you read that? Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in Classic, MacOnLinux (probably not?) or if it's in Carbon? //ernie torsdagen den 28 november 2002 kl 22.21 skrev Bob Sloots: I was interested, until I read (on the site): Mac OS 9.X only... I'm running 8.6. But thanks anyway, as far as I know it's the only Mac OS program to repartition a hard disk. Bob. Partition Toolkit requires: Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9.X, Power Macintosh CPU with G3 or G4 processor, 16 MB of available RAM, and SCSI or IDE hard disk. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
Where did you read that? On the site in the section System requirements (down, on the right). Maybe they updated this recently... Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in Classic, MacOnLinux (probably not?) or if it's in Carbon? I would expect it to run in MOL, cause MOL just runs the MacOS in a Linux-window. Bob.
Re: Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
Where did you read that? On the site in the section System requirements (down, on the right). Maybe they updated this recently... Ok, I found it too... must be a typo? I trust the pressrelease. Yeah, it's the first app that does this for HFS and HFS+ partions! I wonder if it works in Classic, MacOnLinux (probably not?) or if it's in Carbon? I would expect it to run in MOL, cause MOL just runs the MacOS in a Linux-window. Bob. Of course the app would run, but I don't think it would be useful because MOL doesn't really have direct access to the disc and the partion table, has it (and this program probably needs that)? It treats CD-roms as read-only harddrives as an example... //ernie
Interesting? FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing
Thought this might be interesting! Sorry for the large text... http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 with Partition Resizing - (from their email press release) FWB Ships Partition Toolkit Version 1.0 -Easy-to-use disk utility resizes drive partitions on the fly- FWB Software today announced the immediate availability of Partition Toolkit. Partition Toolkit features a streamlined user interface for creating, deleting, and easily modifying drive partitions. With Partition Toolkit, users can resize Macintosh formatted volumes to make them smaller, and then use the new free space to create an extra volume in the format of their choice. The four formats supported by Partition Toolkit for volume creations include HFS (Mac OS Standard File System), HFS+ (Mac OS Extended File System), MS-DOS, and LinuxPPC. Normally a drive volume can not be easily resized without destroying the data contained within. Adding extra partitions or volumes to a drive usually involves the painful procedure of backing up the data, reformatting, partitioning the drive, and restoring the data, said Marko Kostyrko, FWB's Director of Product Development. FWB Partition Toolkit was created to automate the procedure of resizing and creating new volumes on the fly without the need to move your data to a temporary storage. There are many benefits of partitioning a drive into more than one volume. For example, a machine running OS 9 and OS X can have the operating systems separated from each other and data becomes easier to maintain and manage. In addition, a volume can be secured with other disk utilities as a read-only or a password protected partition. Partition Toolkit is a must for anyone who has better things to do than shuffling data back and forth in order to create additional volumes. concluded Marko Kostyrko. Pricing, Availability and System Requirements Partition Toolkit 1.0 is now available for the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) of $24.95. Partition Toolkit requires: Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS 9.X, Power Macintosh CPU with G3 or G4 processor, 16 MB of available RAM, and SCSI or IDE hard disk.
