[G4] Partitioning ?

Dennis B. Swaney romad at nvwisp.com
Fri Aug 5 06:38:08 PDT 2005


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."


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