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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