Re: Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.
Dear Charles I just stumbled over your post. I don't know if the problem persists, but I successfully managed to shrink my MacOS X partition using the parted tool from the Debian installer (I called parted from the shell). I believe your command should not be resize 3 100GB 50GB but resize 3 50GB 100GB because: - the second argument is the start position of the partition - the third is the end position (I believe...) Cheers Matthias -- Matthias Brennwald Nagra Hardstrasse 73 CH-5430 Wettingen +41 56 437 13 32 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[workaround] Re: Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.
Le Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:28:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy a écrit : Dear lists, I am trying to install Debian on a powermac7,3 at work, but I did not manage to resize the main HFS+ partition. Although I have a backup, I would like to avoid reinstalling MacOS X. I saw on the web reports from 2005 in which an HFS+ partition was sucessfully resized with the debian-installer, so I wonder what I did wrong. Quick answer to myself: I started a live CD (Ubuntu 6.10, live.debian.net does not seems to support powerpc yet) and tried to move the partition with gparted. Interstingly, it does not manage to move the partition neither, but it accepts to redimention it to the right. I then copied it and deleted the original to install Etch instead. Everything now works fine (except display problems), and yaboot manages to start the cloned osX partition. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did not manage to resize an HFS+ partition on a powermac G5.
Dear lists, I am trying to install Debian on a powermac7,3 at work, but I did not manage to resize the main HFS+ partition. Although I have a backup, I would like to avoid reinstalling MacOS X. I saw on the web reports from 2005 in which an HFS+ partition was sucessfully resized with the debian-installer, so I wonder what I did wrong. I am using the netinst for Etch, in which parted is version 1.7.1. when I try to resize with a command such as resize 3 100GB 50GB, I got the following error message: Error: Unable to satisfy all constraints on the partition. Here is what I know from the disk gslc12|charles|$ diskutil info / Device Node:/dev/disk0s3 Device Identifier: disk0s3 Mount Point:/ Volume Name:Macintosh HD File System:HFS+ Owners: Enabled Partition Type: Apple_HFS Bootable: Is bootable Media Type: Generic Protocol: ATA SMART Status: Verified UUID: E725DF25-8BE1-384B-A630-5BAAE5028069 Total Size: 233.6 GB Free Space: 198.2 GB Read Only: No Ejectable: No Device Location:A (upper) I disabled journaling with sudo diskutil disableJournal / Any idea ? I am a bit frustrated of not being able to use the packages I made... Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
