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Re: GNU Parted - Resizing HFS+ best practice?



Can journaling be turned of booted in OS X, or do I have to boot with a
panther-cd to do this?
A Gentoo-cd; is this a 'live' cd?


Greets,
Michel

On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 10:34, Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 24 aug 2005, at 10:27, Midox - Michel van Dijk wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to resize a HFS+ partition with OS X (10.3.9) on it.  
> > Parted is
> > a tool that should be able to do it.
> > Has anyone experience doing this? And did you survive?
> > Or are there other, better tools for this task?
> 
> I don't know whether there are other, better tools, but I've already  
> resized several HFS+ partitions with parted (booted from a Gentoo cd)  
> without any ill effects. Remember to turn off journaling beforehand  
> though (I have not yet forgotten to turn it off when resizing so I  
> don't know what will happen otherwise, but they explicitly warn about  
> this and I can imagine several bad things could happen if you don't).
> 
> 
> Jonas

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