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reducing sl (hfs+) partition size
the title is pretty self explanatory can anyone help me reduce the size of my sl partiton so that i can add the space freed to my windows drives ntfs
i dont want to use gparted as then chameleon starts showing partition as a linux one anyways please help thanks |
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Is your disk partitioned using the MBR, GPT, or a hybrid scheme? If it's GPT or hybrid, Apple's Disk Utility can resize an HFS partition, although I'm not sure offhand if it can do this for the currently-booted active partition. (You may need to reboot into the installer to do the job.) If Windows boots from the same disk, chances are your system uses either a straight MBR or a hybrid configuration. If it's hybrid, Disk Utility should be able to handle it; but if it's MBR, Disk Utility can't resize it. If the only problem with GNU Parted is an incorrect icon in Chameleon, then chances are that can be corrected. My hunch is that this would be caused by Parted setting an incorrect partition type code. You could use Linux fdisk, OS X fdisk, or various other utilities to change the code back of 0xAF (decimal 175).
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actually its mbr
win 7 leopard and snow leopard are all on the same drive but in different partitions the problem with gparted is that after using it on osx (leopard) chameleon recognizes that os (leopard) as a linux one and doesnt allow me to boot it my leopard has stopped working due to this and i dont want it to happen to snow leopard too but the solution u have suggested could u please elaborate thanks |
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Try using an fdisk-type tool to change the partition type code. I'm most familiar with Linux fdisk, so I'll describe it in more detail:
If I'm right, this procedure should fix your problem. If it doesn't, then something other than the type code is causing Chameleon to misidentify your Leopard partition. The only other idea I've got is that the partition might have been damaged by Parted. If so, then fixing it in OS X's Disk Utility might fix the problem. |
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update: it worked! thanks for helping my leopard work again and helping me reduce the size.
Thanks again! --- thanks a ton mate i will try out ur solution and report thanks for taking the time to write out 💡 Deploy cloud instances seamlessly on DigitalOcean. Free credits ($100) for InfMac readers. Last edited by ushpiy; 01-30-2010 at 11:32 AM. |