[G4] Need to Re-Do Partitions

[Richard Northouse]

Jim,

I have done what you propose. I just did a straight drag-and-drop of my
files on the portioned drive to another drive. Than using disk utilities, I
resized the portioned drive, than copied everything back.

It worked fine. I little on the slow side but once the copy is started, you
can go and something productive, like have a beer or mow the lawn or plant
tomatoes.

Rich


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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