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Date:      Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:20:37 -0400
From:      Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>
To:        Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
Cc:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: OT: resize a FreeBSD slice on a hard drive in a PPC Mac?
Message-ID:  <0EF02E68-7815-46D4-974F-DB82E01572B7@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110320113233.86992c04.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
References:  <20110320113233.86992c04.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>

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On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Which tool can I use to resize a partition / slice on a hard drive  
> in a PowerPC Mac?
> The layout on my FreeBSD hard drive in my G5 currently looks like  
> this:
> root@kg-g5# gpart show ad0
> =>       18  625142430  ad0  APM  (298G)
>         18       1600    1  apple-boot  (800K)
>       1618  616562688    2  freebsd-ufs  (294G)
>  616564306    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>  624952914     189534       - free -  (93M)
>
> I want to have several versions of FreeBSD on it, and thus need to  
> resize it.
> Normally I would just use GNU parted for this, but haven't been able  
> to locate a image with that on which will boot on a PPC mac.
>
> If not possible I will have to reinstall everything.
> -- 
> Torfinn

Be careful, by default APM will only support 8 partitions.  So if you  
need more than 8 in total you'll need to start over.

- Justin



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