iPartition...or something else like it?

[JustGretchen]

I have an external drive that I'd really prefer to not have to wipe clean to repartition it... therefore I need something like iPartition that will do live partition resizing/adding on the drive.

Wondering if anyone knows of anything other than ipartition that will do this...It's kinda pricey at 45 bucks.

 

[BlueRevolution]

Disk Utility in Leopard will do this.

 

[JustGretchen]

With certain partitions, yes, with others it will not. This is what I have discovered.

Thanks for the suggestion.

 

[plinden]

I've used GParted with non-OS X computers. Works well, but I'm not sure how you could use it on a Mac (VirtualBox maybe?)

 

[kainjow]

I don't think GParted supports HFS+. There is also Drive Genius ($99) and VolumeWorks ($59) so I think iPartition is your best option here.

If you have a backup drive, just clone it, then repartition, then do a reverse clone.

 

[plinden]

GParted doesn't support growing HFS+, but supports shrinking and moving partitions (as shown in the table I linked to), so you could arrange the partitions so that Disk Utility could manage them.

The OP didn't say what format the drive was though - chances are it's still FAT32.

Edit: I was able to mount the gparted iso in a Parallels VM and access an external HFS+ formatted hard drive ... I didn't actually modify the partition, but I was able to move a slider that would have resized the partition if I'd gone through with it.