[G4] Need to Re-Do Partitions

[B G]

There is a partition tool out there:

http://www.mklinux.org/getting_started/preparations/pdisk.html

I have never used it so cannot tell you if it works.

Making a back of everything to the external and then reformating  
should work.

The program should not care where you restore it to.

You could just copy all the info to the external drive if you have room.

If you do that you should be able to boot from the copied version  
just to test it.

Good Luck


Brian

G4 gigE 1.0 GHz Powerlogix, 1 GB RAM Dual 160 GB Drives






On May 28, 2006, at 10:39 PM, 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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