Can MacOS X be deleted...

bill mbill m
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
... from an iBook without affecting 9.x?



I installed X on the same partition as 9.1 and since I am getting a new iBook soon with X, I want to reclaim HD space on the old one and leave it running 9 only.



Is there an easy way to do it without having to reformat the hd?



Thanks.

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    Yes. Delete the following files & folders from the root (top level) of the hard drive:



    .Trashes

    .hidden

    .vol

    Applications

    Library

    Network

    System

    Trash

    Volumes

    automount

    bin

    cores

    dev

    etc

    mach

    mach.sym

    mach_kernel

    private

    sbin

    tmp

    usr

    var



    Some of these may be invisible; so, you should use a freeware or shareware utility like <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=1892&db=mac"; target="_blank">Greg's Browser</a> to delete those.



    [ 01-21-2002: Message edited by: starfleetX ]</p>
  • Reply 2 of 3
    bill mbill m Posts: 324member
    Thanks Starfleetx, I will delete those items as you described.



    Thanks again for the prompt response.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    No problem. I'm glad I could help.



    By the way, the Volumes directory may not be there because I think that it is only created when mounting another disk. I could be wrong, though.
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