teehee Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I am trying to make a third partition in boot camp. I already have one for Tiger and one for Vista...is there a way that boot camp will let me make a third? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neckarb Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 no there isnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bxsci(macuser) Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 this should be in boot camp... not leopard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teehee Posted June 21, 2007 Author Share Posted June 21, 2007 sorry. well how would i go about making a third partition to install leopard on (i posted this in the leopard thread because i think some other people might be in my situation as well) EDIT:: nondestructive if possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samohtas Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 I had to partition my start-up drive once, I just "bought" iPartition, which did the job beatifully Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neckarb Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 iPartition is good but it dosent seem to work to well with bootcamp, the only way i ever got to work was a complete format and re-installing all with a new set of partitions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtualball Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Along the lines of iPartition, can it partition my 300 GB FAT32 External drive to make a 100 GB HFS+ and keep the other 200 the same without deleting anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Does iPartition do non-destructive partitioning running from the same disk you want to be parted like Boot Camp now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 No. iPartition partitions destructively. You can try this command, which is what Boot Camp executes. Beware that you have to have only 1 partition before you do this: sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 50G "MS-DOS FAT32" Windows 50G "HFS+" Leopard 50G This is just an example with windows as your second partition and leopard as your third. You can experiment with the resizeVolume command as it is a little tricky and you have to get the sizes exactly right or it will freak out halfway through. Also make sure you've checked and repaired your disk with disk utility beforehand, as errors will mess up the process. The above command resizes your original macintosh Hd partition to 50 gigs, makes a new windows partition which is 50 gigs and a 50 gig leopard partition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 No. iPartition partitions destructively. You can try this command, which is what Boot Camp executes. Beware that you have to have only 1 partition before you do this: sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 50G "MS-DOS FAT32" Windows 50G "HFS+" Leopard 50G This is just an example with windows as your second partition and leopard as your third. You can experiment with the resizeVolume command as it is a little tricky and you have to get the sizes exactly right or it will freak out halfway through. Also make sure you've checked and repaired your disk with disk utility beforehand, as errors will mess up the process. The above command resizes your original macintosh Hd partition to 50 gigs, makes a new windows partition which is 50 gigs and a 50 gig leopard partition. Cool, I wish Apple wrapped this in Disk utility instead of that destructive partitioning system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtualball Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 No. iPartition partitions destructively. You can try this command, which is what Boot Camp executes. Beware that you have to have only 1 partition before you do this: sudo diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 50G "MS-DOS FAT32" Windows 50G "HFS+" Leopard 50G This is just an example with windows as your second partition and leopard as your third. You can experiment with the resizeVolume command as it is a little tricky and you have to get the sizes exactly right or it will freak out halfway through. Also make sure you've checked and repaired your disk with disk utility beforehand, as errors will mess up the process. The above command resizes your original macintosh Hd partition to 50 gigs, makes a new windows partition which is 50 gigs and a 50 gig leopard partition. OK, can you write the command to partition my 300 GB FAT32 ext. drive to 200 GB FAT32 (untouched) and 100 GB HFS+ Leo? Thanks soo much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DsurioN Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 First of all we need to know what the ID of your external drive is. Start up terminal, and type diskutil list tell me what the id of your external hard drive is (300 GB) should be something like diskXsX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taylor_C Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Can anyone confirm/deny that the disk utility on the Leopard installation disk (WWDC 07 BETA) can partition non-destructively? I'd like to restore my disk to one Tiger volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Can anyone confirm/deny that the disk utility on the Leopard installation disk (WWDC 07 BETA) can partition non-destructively? I'd like to restore my disk to one Tiger volume. I think it's safe to assume it can since it was able to in Tiger. Plus there was a strange "Resize" button in DU in build 9A410, not sure about 9A466 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hellojeffo Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 wonder if this would work... use bootcamp to install a copy of say vista or XP..., make the MS Windows partition larger (to accomodate 2 partitions later)... Once that's done, use some software within MS windows like acronis, or partition magic, to partition the disk... I know that acronis can do this non-destructively... Last step is to go back to OSX, and use disk util to make it HFS... then install leopard on it... Do u think it'd work??? Just an idea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Do you have the Leopard installation disc? One of the new Disk Utility features is non destructive partitioning. Just do it though that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iDarbert Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Do you have the Leopard installation disc? One of the new Disk Utility features is non destructive partitioning. Just do it though that. Really? Does it work on the boot volume (the one you are running OSX+Disk Utility from) too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtualball Posted June 23, 2007 Share Posted June 23, 2007 First of all we need to know what the ID of your external drive is. Start up terminal, and type diskutil list tell me what the id of your external hard drive is (300 GB) should be something like diskXsX Well, I'm not completely retarted with Unix. /dev/disk1s2 Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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