[G4] Need to Re-Do Partitions

[Eric Volker]

Never mind - read all of the comments and it appears that resizeVolume 
will only work on Intel Macs. I'm sure what you want to do is possible. 
A tool that may help you would be Carbon Copy Cloner. It will allow you 
to copy an OS X volume to another drive AND make it bootable. Not sure 
how well it handles bootable OS 9 partitions, though.

Eric Volker

On May 29, 2006, at 12:55 AM, Eric Volker wrote:

> The command "diskutil resizeVolume" works on my Macbook Pro, but I'm 
> not sure it'll work on your Quicksilver. You can try the command, 
> though, to see if it works. Look at the following and see if it's any 
> help:
>
> http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/nondestructively_resizing_volumes
>
> Good luck!
>
> Eric Volker
>
> On May 29, 2006, at 12:39 AM, Jim Thornton wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I'm running OSX 10.4.6 on a Quicksilver 733 with two internal hard 
>> drives
>> (60 and 80GB) and an external FW/USB2 160GB drive.
>>
>> I originally partitioned my two internal drives into two volumes 
>> each, but
>> now believe such partitioning was a mistake; I'm running out of space 
>> on
>> some of the volumes, since I sized them poorly. I would like to use 
>> the
>> external drive to temporarily hold the stuff from one of the internal 
>> drives
>> while I wipe the internal clean and turn it into a single partition, 
>> then
>> move the stuff (system, apps, and/or data) back onto the original 
>> drive --
>> after I turn it into a single volume.
>>
>> Can this be done? (Seems like it would be doable, but I don't want to 
>> forget
>> something.)
>>
>> I have ProSoft Engineering's Data Backup; perhaps I could just do a 
>> simple
>> "back up entire volume" to the external drive -- but what about 
>> restoring it
>> to a new/different volume than it came from?
>>
>> I have one volume with OS9 on it, I'd want to keep this capability, 
>> although
>> I almost never boot into OS9. Another volume has OSX, my apps, and 
>> most of
>> my data on it. The other two volumes have just data. I have plenty of 
>> space
>> on the external drive.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>>
>> Jim Thornton
>>
>>
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