On Sep 5, 2006, at 3:26 PM, nagable at comcast.net wrote: > Partitioning is not required to install OS 9. Besides, you can't > add one without erasing your hard drive. It's one advantage PCs > have. "They" use partition magic. I don't think there's anything > like it available for a Mac. There are several commercial programs that will do this. You should be able to find them at macupdate.com with a little searching. parted, http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/, an open source program, can shrink HFS/HFS+ file systems. Phil