Non-destructive partitioning

[joseph2166]

I read in a forum that "This ability to non-destuctively repartition a disk doesn't come from nowhere. It was added to the 10.4.6 and is provided by the command:

hdutil resizeVolume"

Anyone any ideas? I wanted to parition my hard drive (already have it partitioned once for BootCamp) and was woundering if it was realy possible to partition non-destructivly without using bootcamp...

 

[Nermal]

Yes, it's possible using the command line, that's what Boot Camp does behind the scenes. I've never done it though.

 

[timswim78]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060417133543386&lsrc=osxh

Says use boot camp to create a Windows partition. Then format that partition in whatever format you wish to with Disk Utlity.

 

[joseph2166]

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060417133543386&lsrc=osxh

Says use boot camp to create a Windows partition. Then format that partition in whatever format you wish to with Disk Utlity.

Yeh I found that post - but I'm already using BootCamp, so cannot create another partition with it.

 

[timswim78]

Yeh I found that post - but I'm already using BootCamp, so cannot create another partition with it.

My bad.

There is a thread about resizing hfs partitions here:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89960

 

[mkrishnan]

Wow, not that I need to repartition any of my HDs, but nice behind-the-scenes add to OS X. I like that they put it into Darwin (I guess?) and didn't just make it available via Bootcamp for Intel Macs....