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Re: Problem with Swap Partition

You don't actually *have* to reformat. It's just a good idea. If somebody
who knew many things about HFS(+) (and possibly UFS?) wrote a program to
rewrite the partition size, you would have no problems.

As it is, it sounds like your HFS+ partition would appear to be the old
size, but would really be the the new size, so you would have to be very
careful. Use df a lot!

I have an extra partition I was going to put NetBSD on, but I haven't got
around to it due to problems with my IDE card (ACARD6260... bleh!). I'll
probably turn it into an HFS+ partition to experiment with resizing. I
don't know when I'll have time to do it.

Ah ha! I found I guy who actually remembers doing this. (And his name is
Daniel... maybe I'm just confused (pretty likely). I have this vague
memory of doing this at one point or other.)
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2001/03/25/0009.html

Good luck!

Daniel

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On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Dirk Schelfhout wrote:

> On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 05:00 PM, Nicolas Linkert wrote:
> > Which means I can defragment my hfs+ partition and resize it with
> > pdisk???
> > And then, after rebooting, create a ufs partition with the rest of the
> > space
> > (with pdisk) and format it with /sbin/newfs /dev/disk0sxyz??? How safe
> > is it?
> > I have never done that with Linux' fdisk (x86) because I never had any
> > reason
> > to do so but right now I could really maker use of this.
> The way to do it is to backu up all data on the partition you want to
> change.
> Then make it smaller. ( or bigger, whatever you want )
> Run newfs ( or newfs_hfs ) on it. The restore your data.
> Also dont forget to create a new partition with the cylinders you freed
> up in pdisk.
> good luck, you will also need to boot from another media while you do
> this.
> And make sure the disk you are working on is not mounted.

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 >Re: Problem with Swap Partition (From: Dirk Schelfhout <email@hidden>)



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