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jaspal kallar
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 Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 2:22 pm Post subject: GNU parted to shrink OS X partition help? |
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If I want to shrink my OS X partition to accomodate Gentoo do I need to only use the GNU parted command "resize" or do I have to also then use the command "mkpartfs" ?
Any examples would be very much appreciated!
It's not clear to me from the GNU parted documentation what happens to the disk space that it left after a OS X partition shrink?
My intention is to shrink my G5 160 GB to 80GB and the remainder to be used by Gentoo. |
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clar77
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| Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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| you'll need to shrink it first and then use the new freespace to create your linux partition with the fs of your choice. I shrank the partition with parted and then used mac-fdisk to create a new partition and fs for linux as per usual. |
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jaspal kallar
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 10:26 am Post subject: |
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I shrank the partition with parted
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Exactly my question really. How did you shrink it with parted? Did you use the resize command followed by another command?
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:05 am Post subject: |
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rtfm :p
[code]
# parted
resize <pnumber> start end
quit
#mac-fdisk
c
(answer the q's)
w
q
then mke2fs (-j for ext3)
here you go...
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kaluta
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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# parted
resize <pnumber> start end
quit
#mac-fdisk
c
(answer the q's)
w
q
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The only thing you'll have to add to this is to reorder the partitions. The OS X partition will be first on the disk, but the bootstrap partition you create wants to be first so use the reorder option in mac-fdisk to move it to the front and you're done. Worked for me!
See this thread for more on this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=145049&highlight=
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jaspal kallar
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| Posted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Thanks to all who replied. It's much more clear! |
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mugget
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i've been thinking about resizing my OS X boot Volume and from what i've read i think Parted is my best option.
i've got my OS X boot volume, my Gentoo partitons and a couple of other HFS+ partitions. i just wanted to ask: will Parted let me resize the OS X boot volume (make it bigger) and then let me join my two other HFS+ partitons together?
i thought this would be the best place to ask. i'd try it out myself, but i'm a n00b, so perhaps there is someone here who could save me alot of deep breaths.  
also, is it possible to take space from a HFS+ partiton and join it to a Ext3 partiton?
thanks. 
edit>> i've just been reading the user manual, it mentions 'growing' a partiton, so i guess that means i can do what i want? well i just want you guys to double check on the for me.
hehe. perhaps i should have made this a new thread? :p
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