At 2:22 PM +1000 8/5/05, Tony Johansen wrote: >On 5/8/2005 11:38 AM, "Dan A Currie" <dancurr at frontiernet.net> wrote: > >> Has anyone here used partition on their G4 HD and if so what was the result? > >Nothing could be simpler than partitioning both internal and external disks >using Disk Utility found in applications. (If I can do it it has to be easy) > >However it has the downside of being destructive in as much as partitioning >erases the disk. I know there is a non-destructive version available, >although I have a feeling it was for PC. Non-destructive partitioning means >that the sizes of partitions can be adjusted later according to needs >without erasing data, which seems to me a rather desirable feature. Perhaps >looking at alternatives to Disk Utility for Mac is a good idea, if the >software is non-destructive. > Tony, you might want to look at Drive Genius from Prosoft Engineering http://www.prosofteng.com -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney "Windows is a command-line OS with a GUI shell while Mac System 10 is ... oh, never mind."