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I have a working bootable copy of iPartition and it wont resize my partition. It resizes about 3 megs and thats it. Does anyone know why this is happening? I just cant wait to install Slackintosh Linux.

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I have a big feeling that article is going to have him wipe the drive... (correct me if I'm wrong.) I'm guessing he doesn't want that, hence usage of iPartition.

 

What exactly do you mean by "it resizes 3 megs?" Like it will leave you with a 3 meg partition and another partition with everything else? Or...?

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No, when I slide that pie chart thing, it only goes a little bit. Usually a mac has 128.00 MB left as free space so when I slide it to the maximum it only goes until the free space says 872 MB. But I have 40 GB left on my HFS partition and I'd like to give about 10-15 GB to Slackintosh (Slacware PPC).

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http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition-faq.php

 

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12. According to Finder, I've got 70GB of free space on my disk, but iPartition will only let me make a new partition 3MB in size, and won’t let me make it any larger.

 

Finder displays the amount of free space within a partition. In iPartition, “Free Space” refers to the amount of space on your disk that is not currently within any partition. Before you can create a larger partition, you will need to shrink one or more of your existing partitions to make space. iPartition can’t do this for you, because there is no way for it to know which of your existing partitions you wish to shrink.

 

Any luck there?

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Well, are you willing to wipe the drive? If yes, fdisk is your friend.

 

EDIT - completely unrelated, I see a smiley that says "censored" across it. I'm guessing that it is covering an obscenity, where do I turn that off? (I can't find it...)

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You dont. The code for the smiley is

:censored2:

 

 

Example: That looks like {censored}.

 

 

See, if you want you can insert the smiley and if you dont you dont

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