[G4] Need to Re-Do Partitions

[Eric Volker]

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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