On Jul 19, 2005, at 10:57 AM, Daejuan Jacobs wrote:

> Hi, thanks for the detailed response. I knew OS X makes other
> partitions, here's mine.
>
> /dev/rdisk0  map block size=512
>    #:                 type name                 length   base     ( 
> size )
>    1:  Apple_partition_map Apple                    63 @ 1
>    2:           Apple_Free                           0+@ 64
>    3:            Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_2 38820536 @ 262208   ( 
> 18.5G)
>    4:           Apple_Boot eXternal booter       17408 @ 39082744 (  
> 8.5M)
>    5:            Apple_UFS Apple_UFS_Untitled_3 39065192 @ 39100152 ( 
> 18.6G)
>    6:           Apple_Free                           0+@ 78165344
>
> Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=78165360
> DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
>
> I knew about using "upgrade" rather then an install. So your telling
> me, in the UFS I can make a swap partition? Or are you saying to use
> Disk Utility and delete the UFS, and create another HFS? Because I
> need a swap partition for NetBSD. Thats really the only thing I need
> help on.
>
I'm saying use pdisk.  Assuming disk0s5 / Apple_UFS_Untitled_3 is 
empty, etc,
(can be deleted,etc),  I think it would go something like d 5, then d 
4, then C with 4p for start, size
give size in gigabyte or megabyte adding a suffix of G or M, 
respectively, type Apple_UFS,
  then C 5p for start, size 5p, type  Apple_UNIX_SVR2, for the swap. So 
then, externel booter is totally
  gone, you don't need it, unless you want to boot macosx on the ufs, 
and you have less cruft,
  partitions 1-3 are intact, hfs file system untouched  -- diskutility, 
though, kills everything, you can't 'fine tune' w/ it.