From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 22:14:17 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E4A16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:14:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7923343D45 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:14:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julianmayer@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id j0HMEH6B024055 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:14:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (chello062178213223.10.15.tuwien.teleweb.at [62.178.213.223]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j0HMEBof001516 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 14:14:14 -0800 (PST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1D4F8056-68D5-11D9-8C44-000A95C2EA1C@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org From: Julian Mayer Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:14:11 +0100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:14:17 -0000 Peter Grehan wrote: >> Any recommendations for dynamically resizing an HFS+ partition? > > > Alas no. A clone of growfs for HFS+ would be a difficult > project to say the least ! > > later, > > Peter. there are one free and three commercial options to do hfs+ resize: GNU parted: there are hfs+ resize patches to GNU parted as well as pre-built linux binaries available at: http://xilun.nerim.net/Projet/Parted/ you should be able to get this going with linux, (free)bsd and macosx (this is also what is used on gentoo-ppc to provide format-free install options) iPartition: this is a commercial application for Mac OS X, i've personally tried it out and it did work http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php VolumeWorks: this is a commercial application for Mac OS X http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/product_info.php?products_id=431 PartitionToolkit: this is a commercial application for Mac OS 9, i've also tried this one and it did work too http://www.fwb.com/html/partition_toolkit.html maybe gnu parted with hfs+ resize patches could also be added to the FreeBSD ppc install process? hope that helps, julian