Re: Non Destructive Partitioning
Can't you use Disk Utility? It has a really neat partition manager. Manuel Simon Royal wrote: Hi I want to repartition my hard drive. I currently have an 80GB drive (or 74.5GB as it shows up in OSX as), split into two. 73GB for Leopard and 1GB for OS9. I want to add a third partition for Tiger - only a small 3GB one, taking Leopard down to 70GB. I have used iPartition before on a number of occasions successfully, via Target Mode on another Mac, but I don't own iPartition (it was a friends Mac - who I have lost contact with). I Googled it this morning and aparently as of 10.4.6 you can do it using Terminal, but it looks a bit scarey. Is there any other program you can do it with? Simon --- Visit http://www.simonroyal.co.uk - http://www.nmug.org.uk... Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 768MB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5 9.2.2... The box said requires Windows XP or better, so I bought an Apple Mac. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Non Destructive Partitioning
What's with the cross posting to multiple LEM lists? At 10:51 AM + 2/26/2009, Simon Royal wrote: I Googled it this morning and aparently as of 10.4.6 you can do it using Terminal, but it looks a bit scarey. Is there any other program you can do it with? We've covered this over and over in various LEM threads. Repartitioning a hard drive with live data on it is kindof like running your finger under the fan belt of your car while the engine is running. Sometimes you get that cool feeling as the rubber rushes by, and sometimes your finger gets pulled in a ripped off. Repartitioning is RISKY. VERY RISKY. DO NOT do it unless you have UP-TO-DATE BACKUPS. Oh wait. If you have up to date backups -- why not just do it right? Repartition the drive properly, laying down a *clean* partition map, with Disk Utility, then reload the volumes from your backup. Why go to the risk of having the data loss and a foo partition map (that NO repair tool can fix!)? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Non Destructive Partitioning
Dan. I saw sense, although I don't have a full back up of my Mac at any given time, just the important files - about 2GB backed up online. I don't have a big enough external storage device. I do however have my sons eMac with just enough free space. So I used SuperDuper to clone my Leopard install to an image on his hard drive via target mode. Then I repartitioned the PowerBook into 3 (one for Leopard, one for Tiger and one for OS9). At present I am cloning the Leopard image back. Fingers crossed. Then my OS9 image (which is a puny 200MB) and then I will install Tiger. I have succesfully used iPartition, but like you say I want it nice and cleanly done. Also apologies for the double posting. Simon --- Repartitioning is RISKY. VERY RISKY. Oh wait. If you have up to date backups -- why not just do it right? Repartition the drive properly, laying down a *clean* partition map, with Disk Utility, then reload the volumes from your backup. Why go to the risk of having the data loss and a foo partition map (that NO repair tool can fix!)? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Non Destructive Partitioning
At 6:26 PM + 2/26/2009, Simon Royal wrote: I saw sense Good! :) , although I don't have a full back up of my Mac at any given time, just the important files - about 2GB backed up online. I don't have a big enough external storage device. I know that feeling; I'm getting tight now. Had to burn'n'dump some vids to make things fit. I do however have my sons eMac with just enough free space. So I used SuperDuper to clone my Leopard install to an image on his hard drive via target mode. Then I repartitioned the PowerBook into 3 (one for Leopard, one for Tiger and one for OS9). At present I am cloning the Leopard image back. Fingers crossed. Then my OS9 image (which is a puny 200MB) and then I will install Tiger. Nice! Let us know how it goes. I haven't tried the backup-into-an-image bit before. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Non Destructive Partitioning
Dan Well it worked. I backed up Leopard to a sparseimage onto my sons eMac. I had a little scarey moment when I went to clone it back again. I couldn't select the .sparseimage file in SuperDuper. Luckily renaming it .dmg did the trick - phew! One other tip. Before cloning it back, mount the image before cloning and don't just select the .dmg file. I now have three partitions and three operating systems. 70GB for Leopard, 3.8GB for Tiger and 745MB for OS9 and I can boot into any of them. In fact I am writing this in Tiger while running Software Update to get the last few updates. Simon --- Nice! Let us know how it goes. I haven't tried the backup-into-an-image bit before. - Dan. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
