[G4] Re: G4] Correct Partitioning ?

[John Baltutis]

On 08/05/05, "Jay E. Krauss, Jr." <jekrauss at charter.net> wrote:
> On 5/8/2005 11:38 AM, "Dan A Currie" <dancurr at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>> Has anyone here used ipartition on their G4 HD and if so what was the
>>result?

> I have used VolumnWorks (SubRosaSoft.com) to eliminate a partition on
> my MDD G4 (was four, reduced to three). It worked well; however, I
> did make a complete backup of all partitions before performing the
> operation (the program actually strongly suggests this as well). It
> did allow me to make the change without reformatting the hard drive,
> repartitioning, and then reinstalling. I had considered iPartition,
> but chose VolumnWorks, primarily because of good results with other
> SubRosaSoft products.

Just my 2¢. If these SW solutions strongly suggest backing up everything
before repartitioning, then why bother? It takes just as much time and
effort to backup, erase, repartition, and restore, either w/their SW or
Apple's DU and whatever you're using to backup. The latter w/o coughing up
anything for a 3rd-party solution.