[G4] Partitioning Drives (was: Instructions on re-installing myOS9)

Jay Ruuska jruuska at aol.com
Tue Sep 5 20:08:51 PDT 2006


I'm a big fan of iPartition, which lets you resize Mac OS volumes and has a
nice graphical interface and other features, rather than using the Terminal.

- Jay

 
>> 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.
>> 
> 
> I guess you're not familiar with the *nix diskutil command.  That's
> what bootcamp uses to expand and contract your hard drive to make a
> Windows partition and then remove it when you finally realize that
> you don't need to use Windows.




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