zorgcry Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 Do you know some software for partitioning hard disk on mac? I tried ipartition but it doesn't recognize a valid partition map and doesn't give me the chance to create one on disk where i had installed osx. my hard disk is (under linux): /dev/sda1 Mac osx hfs+ bootable not allocated 10gb /dev/sda2 fat32 /dev/sda3 extended partition /dev/sda5 ext3 / /dev/sda6 ext3 /home /dev/sda7 reiserfs I don't have windows so I can't use Partition Magic.I wanted to enlarge Macosx partition dimension but at the moment I don't know how(cause ipartition or disk utility don't allow me). With gparted on linux I just can create a new partition of 2048 mb of tipe hfs. The alternative should be create a fat32 partition(recognized by mac) but I don't know if it's possible to install application or other stuff on fat32 with Mac(I can create folders,but I'm newbe with Mac world and don't know nothing about how applications work). Can you help me? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BuildSmart Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 It helps to search and examine other topics. Try a newer version of iPartition (you can't use it in demo mode). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-171200 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 21, 2006 Share Posted August 21, 2006 on Mac: forget it. I use boot disks of: - Partition Magic 8.05 (MUST be latest 8.05) - look for it in eMule/ aMule - Gparted - get the live-CD Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-171381 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 or you can use a live cd such as UBCD ultra boot cd. Does everything you like and its free!. its great just whatever you do DONOT use SPFDISK SuperFdisk is a chinese virus! it f***s up your MBR sorry for the profanity it literally will not go off your drive you got to use DOD (department of Defense) drive cleansing before you can load another OS on your HD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-171752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zorgcry Posted August 22, 2006 Author Share Posted August 22, 2006 ok thank you very much.I will try partition magic that I can use well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-171946 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Partition Manager is even better than Partition Magic Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-172032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 Coriolis iPartition 1.5.2 English (full retail with license file) - available through eMule/ aMule Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 cool @ bugs but your better off like you said with a live cd. Real fast results! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173112 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 yep - I have all sorts of live CDs here, too, and all of them are great for something .. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 yea live cds save alot of time and headache @ milestones. U happen to have any screens of your startup disk pane?. thats if your on osx86 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 U happen to have any screens of your startup disk pane?. thats if your on osx86hm? I don't get at all what you mean - what's a "startup disk pane", and what does it have to do with "live disks" ? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173132 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSX86tester Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 curious to see if a startup folder is listed. nothing to do with live cd's a startup disk pane is when you go to system prefs and then click startup disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 just "Boot from Network". Doesn't matter anyway, because this start up pref pane is based on EFI, which we don't have (yet) on our hackint0shes .. curious to see if a startup folder is listed. nothing to do with live cd's a startup disk pane is when you go to system prefs and then click startup disk Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-173745 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgg71 Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 If you want to change partitions on a hackintosh, no mac partitioning program will work. ipartition and all other mac partitioners won't recognize your partition table since hackintosh is using a MBR formatted disk for PC ( the only way BIOS can read it). I have not found any way to resize a HFS+ partition yet on a hackintosh. gparted allows to shrink a HFS+ it seems but can't confirm it since I did not try it. What I was interested more was to enlarge a hfs+ on a hackintosh. for that the only way so far is to sync/image your os on anotehr drive then resize/format your main drive from windows or an opensource soft like gparted live cd, then go back to OSX from the extra drive and use diskutil to erase the hfs+ you just created. This will bring it on the desktop. Now you can restore/sync your system onto teh newly created volume. I doubt there is any other way unless gparted will have full hfs+ support regardless of partition table. i doubt win or mac software will support hfs+ on pc since is not supposed to be there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-216104 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuXb Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 hi bgg71, I can confirm anything you said apart from this here: I doubt there is any other way unless gparted will have full hfs+ support regardless of partition table. i doubt win or mac software will support hfs+ on pc since is not supposed to be there. transmac now supports accessing HFS partitions on a PC because they follow what we are doing. I am pretty sure that sooner or later there will also be some program that can enlargen HFS partitions. Just a matter of time. Coders like fiddeling, too, you know, and they like challenges .. Also Coriolis System (iPartition) said they are working on enabling PC formatted partition schemes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-216281 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgg71 Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 hi bgg71, I can confirm anything you said apart from this here: I doubt there is any other way unless gparted will have full hfs+ support regardless of partition table. i doubt win or mac software will support hfs+ on pc since is not supposed to be there. transmac now supports accessing HFS partitions on a PC because they follow what we are doing. I am pretty sure that sooner or later there will also be some program that can enlargen HFS partitions. Just a matter of time. Coders like fiddeling, too, you know, and they like challenges .. Also Coriolis System (iPartition) said they are working on enabling PC formatted partition schemes. I'll believe when I see one! Best bet is that open source community will add support for hfs+ resizing to parted. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/25326-partition/#findComment-237909 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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