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savar

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Jun 6, 2003
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I'm stumped on this one...hoping somebody here has wise advice.

When I installed my MacBook's HD, I created three partitions.

1) Mac
2) Windows
3) Ubuntu

Later on I realized that a) Bootcamp can't partition a disk that's already partitioned, and b) Ubuntu can't boot on an EFI machine.

Soooo now I'm thinking I will just run these OS's in VMWare. I don't really need a reason to boot into Windows anyway, I don't think -- I'm not trying to play games or anything.

And that leads me to the question: how can I [non-destructively] remove these two partitions and reclaim the space for my #1 Mac partition?

I've used pdisk before, but I know that some file systems won't automatically expand if the partition gets bigger...is HFS one of them? Any other approaches or ideas?

Thanks--
 
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