Akueikyou Posted December 10, 2005 Share Posted December 10, 2005 Actually I'm fighting with partitions and all stuff. Doing some google, I found a program named VolumeWorks what promises to be able to "Resize Partitions On-the-Fly".. I don't know a reliable partition manager program for Mac and it really was quite interesting. Anyway, the partitions of man can be a serious matter, then I informed before act. VolumeWorks crictic This guy says VolumeWorks can damage seriously yours partition, even dump it completely. There's any brave to prove it? Volumeworks? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phineas J. Whoopie Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 I was faced with the same problem. I wanted to cut the HFS+ partition in half so I could put XP on the other half. Since I only wanted to do it once, I didn't want to pay for SW like iPartition. I found that a linux utility called parted supposedly could resize HFS+ partitions. I downloaded Ubuntu's live CD, which has parted on it and gave it a shot. When run, it complained that there was something about the partition that it wasn't familiar with and cautioned that it might do bad things. I told it to go ahead. It did bad things. I ended up just blowing away the partitions and re-doing it from scratch with the 1099 install DVD. It didnt' take me long to re-install all the {censored} back on there and get it working again. So the short answer is, that there doesn't appear to be a free utility to do this. I"m not sure iPartition would work either. There might be something unique to the OSx86 HFS+ partition. -Phineas Actually I'm fighting with partitions and all stuff. Doing some google, I found a program named VolumeWorks what promises to be able to "Resize Partitions On-the-Fly".. I don't know a reliable partition manager program for Mac and it really was quite interesting. Anyway, the partitions of man can be a serious matter, then I informed before act. VolumeWorks crictic This guy says VolumeWorks can damage seriously yours partition, even dump it completely. There's any brave to prove it? Volumeworks? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-35795 Share on other sites More sharing options...
explodingpickle.org Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 It is a hugely bad idea to resize HFS+ without disabling the journaling. You can't disable journaling in Disk Utility, but you can type in Terminal: sudo diskutil enableJournal "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" sudo diskutil disableJournal "/Volumes/Macintosh HD" Replace Macintosh HD with whatever you changed your disk's name to, if you changed it at all. Then go into Linux and fix up the partitions as needed, then you can enable journaling with Disk Utility back in OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-377328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 I"m not sure iPartition would work either. iPartition won't resize your main volume without wiping it, I tried to use it before. It's really a {censored} piece of software, doesn't do anything Disk Utility doesn't. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-377363 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted June 4, 2007 Share Posted June 4, 2007 It will resize without wiping, I had OS X, Windows and Linux on a single Disk and Resized each as I needed more space. Look for Bootable OS X utils on the Green Demon Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-377621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenFlu Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 could'nt you just use boot camp to resize the hfs+ partition? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-429651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krazubu Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 You can use a ubuntu live CD and use the tool named Gparted, I resized my partition this way and it worked perfectly, but you have to disable journaling before, following the method above. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-429718 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Guys what app can I use to resize partition on a hackintosh? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-429817 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhalls Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 why not just get another harddrive insted of partitioning? They are cheap nowadays... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-429836 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 True, or if you dont want to and have a huge harddisk use iPartition / Bootcamp or Leopard Disk Util. works like a charm. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-430342 Share on other sites More sharing options...
enb14 Posted August 20, 2007 Share Posted August 20, 2007 why not just get another harddrive insted of partitioning? They are cheap nowadays... Because I got a huge hard drive (500 GB) so I created a new partition for mac but now I need more space on that mac partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5639-resize-partitions-dynamically-on-mac/#findComment-431654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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