Subject: Re: Disk repartitioning tool
To: David A. Gatwood <dgatwood@mvista.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/01/1999 12:14:34
At 11:47 AM -0800 11/1/99, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
>
>> At 4:17 PM -0800 10/30/99, Sean-Paul Rees wrote:
>> >Is there a neat partitioning tool for Macintosh so I can resize my Mac
>> >partition and create a NetBSD root and NetBSD usr partition?
>> >
>> >My NetBSD drive died :(
>>
>> Sort-of.  Most MacOS disk formatters will do the job.
>>
>> When you resize a MacOS partition you loose the data on it, you know.
>
>Not necessarily, no.  Most commercial formatters can do lossless shrinking
>and expansion.  Note that since the allocation size can't change, you end
>up wasting space, and that you can only expand it up to the maximum size
>allowed by the block/allocation size.

I've always used Apple HD SC Setup or Drive Setup.  I stand corrected.

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