Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 23:14:11 +0100 From: Julian Mayer <julianmayer@mac.com> To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <1D4F8056-68D5-11D9-8C44-000A95C2EA1C@mac.com>
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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
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