change partition sizes on the fly

parvenuparvenu
Posted:
in Mac Software edited January 2014
hello all,

I read on some site (tidbits?) that a new utility previewed at Macworld would allow you to change the size of your partitions without loss of data. Does anyone know anything about this? Thanks.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    ibrowseibrowse Posts: 1,749member
    I need this too. I had a partition for Linux that I barely used but now that Apple has a decent X11 I don't need Linux really, and that extra 10G is tempting. I think what I need is a bit different though, because I need to reformat the partion too.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    1337_5l4xx0r1337_5l4xx0r Posts: 1,558member
    iBrowse: I think I mentioned this once before, but boot up from your linux cd, reformat your linux 10 Gigger to HFS (mac-fdisk or whatever it's called, the thing you used to make an ext3 part.), and boot into Mac OS. Reformat your spiffy new partition to HFS+, then try these partition utilities to expand your main partition.



    edit: pdisk /dev/hda



    d <swap partiton, eg: 9>

    d </root/, eg 10>



    then create a new partition from these old ones, of the type HFS.



    [ 02-19-2003: Message edited by: 1337_5L4Xx0R ]</p>
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