kuau Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I am running deadmoo on a Intel 915 based mb, 40 gig IDE hd. I have read all the threads but I am confused on what's the best way to increase the partition size so I can use all of my 40gig hd. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShinAli Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 This is what I want to know, too. I made my own four gig VMWare image and dd'ed it onto my 20 gig hard drive, but it only shows up as a 4 gig partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4090 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodat Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 As a thought, could you go back into your other OS of choice (say, windows xp), go into your disk management utility and format the remaining empty space as a seperate partition? It isn't exactly what you're looking for, but if it works (and doesn't hose your installation) it should provide you with another volume. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4150 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chispa60 Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 As a thought, could you go back into your other OS of choice (say, windows xp), go into your disk management utility and format the remaining empty space as a seperate partition? It isn't exactly what you're looking for, but if it works (and doesn't hose your installation) it should provide you with another volume. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Yes you can do that. But here's the snag. Apps can only be installed on the startup disk (partition). Thus, let's say there was a 20gb hard drive, 6 of which is used by dd'ing deadmoo's image, then the remaining 14gb could be formated and used BUT you wouldn't be able to install any apps directly to it. Therefore, it's worth trying to figure out how to resize the partition to encompass the entire drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4158 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentOrange Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I'm in the same boat. I DD'd the 6GB image to my 20GB drive. Personallized the users, installed FireFox and whatnot, then saw the space left. I have Macs around, so I'm trying to image my x86 install, then reformat the 20GB and restore my image back on using the Apple disk utility. I tried this once, but it lacked the boot flag on the partition. Then I screwed up the partition table trying to add the flag in parted from the Ubuntu Live CD. I wish there was an easier way, but I don't know of any utilities (Mac or otherwise) that will resize HFS+ partitions on-the-fly. Parted can shrink them, but that doesn't do us a whole lot of good. Might come in handy if we want to free up some space for Linux or Windows though. Edit: This topic is being discussed over here: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=438 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattb Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 anyone tried resizing with partitionmagic? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4190 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetta VR6 6Spd Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 Pretty Sure Partition Magic doesn't support the HFS+ Filesystem. If someone know otherwise, please let us all know. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4195 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetta VR6 6Spd Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I am running deadmoo on a Intel 915 based mb, 40 gig IDE hd. Since you have the 915 mb you might try the Dev Kit DVD install method. This should allow you to install however you want. What are the rest of the specs on your machine? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentOrange Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I have Macs around, so I'm trying to image my x86 install, then reformat the 20GB and restore my image back on using the Apple disk utility. Yeah, that totally didn't work. I'm going to put this on the shelf until someone figures out how to dd the image on without the partition restriction, or when I get back home where I can slap my DVD drive in and attempt a native install. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4206 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoniloilo Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I am running deadmoo on a Intel 915 based mb, 40 gig IDE hd.I have read all the threads but I am confused on what's the best way to increase the partition size so I can use all of my 40gig hd. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> There are several ways to do that. If you mean you want to stick with VMware, you can increase the size of the VM disk image. But first of all, you want to increase the speed of VMware. For me, the Deadmoo approach was a wonderful thing, but not workable coz of too slow. Do this to increase the speed: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/SpeedBoost Pay attention esp. to SpeedBoost Part III. You will be impressed by the speed of VMware now. To increase the VMware disk image: http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/dis...ger_run_ws.html It applies to VMware 4.5, but to 5.0 as well. In that way you can increase your VMware disk from 6 to any GB. To go native is of course the best. I choosed this way: with VMware, running OSX, starting the Disk Utility, copying the VMware disk image to a physical hard disk. In that way, you'll have 40 or 80 etc GB, the size of your HD. If you have setup your own account in OSX, all will be fine. If you're still with Deadmoo's account, you'll need his password: bovinity There are a few finishing things, but they can be found elsewhere. For me, i have now a dual booting system: XP and OSX. OSX has its own disk. Network & sound ok. Runs damn fast. But this afternoon i've bought some hardware stuff, a case, mobo, memory etc and i will build a dedicated OSX computer. Using the HD with OSX already on it. PS OSX Tiger is amazing. When you compare this to Vista/Longhorn, oh man - this really sucks... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4210 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightballx Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I think i may have found a solution! EspadaV8's PearPC image resizer The link above is an Image resizer tool (originally for PearPC) By EspadaV8 It makes img files bigger.. do not use the fix tool. It might work by using this tool to make tiger-x86-flat.img bigger and then Re-dd'ing You need to have the java runtime enviroments installed (J2SE iirc) How to start the tool: Windows: Open command prompt, type java -jar PearPC-HD-Resizer-0.21.jar Linux: In your shell type java -jar PearPC-HD-Resizer-0.21.jar Mac OSX: Click on the Executable Jar File. I cant test if it works due to HD space reasons, but please can someone try this... this COULD be an indispensible piece of info! HTH -=eightballx=- Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoniloilo Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 I think i may have found a solution! EspadaV8's PearPC image resizer The link above is an Image resizer tool (originally for PearPC) By EspadaV8 Yes, i have used that tool to increase PearPC disk images. PearPC is a emulator for OSX. http://www.pearpc.net Like VMware can now also emulate OSX, actually almost every OS. I doubt that a PearPC disk image has the same structure like a VMware disk image. IMHO, i would not execute that tool on a VMware disk image. I would stick with the VMware disk image increaser. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4254 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightballx Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 The .img file from the VMWare file is a raw image file like from PearPC afaik... By the Way... .img is created by another tool... not VMware as vmware files in vmdk -=eightballx=- You could try the VMWare disk resizer... but i dont know if it supports HFS+ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4255 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted August 21, 2005 Share Posted August 21, 2005 Just wanna say that I grew my VMWare image by first copying the vmdk file to a new vmdk file, while making sure I choose the type to be of the "growable" variant. Then I expanded this new vmdk file to 20Gb. Works like a charm. For both the copying and expanding be sure to use the vmware-vdiskmanager utility. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/686-is-there-a-way-to-increase-6gig-partition-on-deadm/#findComment-4861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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