Interesting phenomena

[Potemkin]

Hello everyone.

 

I have just noticed a weird problem. The first time it happened I didn't pay much attention but...

 

I sucessfully made a clone of the small partition, and started copying new stuff over it. But today it got stuck while booting from it, so I erased everything with the Disk Utility and recreated the bigger partition. It worked, I moved all the new stuff over again and started unpacking it when... After a reboot it won't load again! And everything seems fine until you reboot.

 

I think this has to do with the size of the partition. I think somehow there is still data on the HDD that the partition is 6 GB. When I start moving things over it works, but then during the booting process the system gets confused, as the partition size is supposedly 6GB but the amount of space occupied by data is, say, 8 GB.

 

Is that possible? Because I think that's where it lies. Everything works until I start installing all the stuff on the big partition which starts exceeding the 6GB limit.

 

EDIT: I used the method described in Wiki. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to copy the files, and then fdisk to make the partition bootable. I'm yet to make the Disk utility method work. Maybe that way the system will boot.

[Potemkin]

Guess what . I was right.

 

I freed up some space on the new partition so there's over a gig left and it booted again!

 

SO. It looks like even though OSX sees that there is more space available, it does not somehow recognize it during the booting process and hangs. I'm going to test it again one more time now, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be the same.

 

And for those of you who started getting the root device error while the system worked before and you used the same method of cloning, try freeing up some space after booting up from the old small partition which you should've kept since you really are supposed to know there is nothing stable about this yet .