HFS(+) resizing kernel/parted patch (easily make room for Ge

tasty · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2003 Posts: 7 Location: ZA

HFS(+) resizing kernel/parted patch (easily make room for Gentoo)

Anyone have more info about this?

Thanks,
tasty

pvdabeel · Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2003 7:25 am Post subject:

latest kernel + patches (should ask kainz): http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0305.0/1603.html

parted patch: http://xilun666.free.fr/parted-1.6.5-hfs-8.patch

If you join #gentoo-ppc feel free to ask questions to xilun about his parted patch. I'm sure he would appreciate feedback.

Pieter

Edweirdo · Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2003 10:20 pm Post subject:

I gave this a whirl to see how well it worked, and I was amazed. Unfortunately, they released the live CDs 2 weeks after I had already repartitioned my Mac, but I didn't care, so I repartitioned it again to test the parted thing. It worked like a charm. I have had a bit of experience with partitioning disks and I found it to be pretty straight forward, however, if you haven't done any command line partition editing it may be quite complicated, if not completely confusing about what to do. But, just so you know, it does work.
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The DJ · n00b Joined: 06 Nov 2002 Posts: 74

This is sooooo important in the world of ppc linux. ppl have no idea

finally.

mrilock · n00b Joined: 14 Mar 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Colorado

From your terse posts, I'm assuming that now, yes, we can resize our partitions.

I have a nice 38 gig partition that I want to shring to 10 gigs. When I use the resize command, however, it appears to run (no complaints), but when I look at the partition map again, its unchanged.
Is there a commit command I need to use?

I'm toying with the man pages, but not making much progress.