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

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My face is red and my ignorance is showing.  But that's why I stay on this listserve.  Thanks, guys.

Nate
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jay Ruuska <jruuska at aol.com>
> 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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