Panther has stolen 15GB of hard disk!

[Felix_the_Mac]

When I installed Panther I partioned my 75GB disk into 50,10,15GB partitions.

I then formatted them:
50 GB with HFS Journalled
10 GB HFS
15 GB unformatted.

Then I completed the installation and have been using Panther happily fopr a month now.

However I now want to format the 15 GB partiton. But Disk Utility will not let me it says:

"This disk contains the boot volume and cannot be partitioned".

How can I rescue my 15GB?
I think this is a bug, do you agree?

 

[revenuee]

Re: Panther has stolen 15GB of hard disk!

Originally posted by Felix_the_Mac


"This disk contains the boot volume and cannot be partitioned".

How can I rescue my 15GB?
I think this is a bug, do you agree?

Did you install the OS to this partition?

 

[Felix_the_Mac]

Panther is installed on the 1st partition which is 50 GB.

 

[FuzzyBallz]

Re: Panther has stolen 15GB of hard disk!

Originally posted by Felix_the_Mac
How can I rescue my 15GB?
I think this is a bug, do you agree?

Wipe the HD and format it as 1 partition of 75GB HFS Journal. If you want a 2nd partition for your files, get a 2nd HD... unless you're using a Book.

 

[tomf87]

Re: Re: Panther has stolen 15GB of hard disk!

Originally posted by FuzzyBallz
Wipe the HD and format it as 1 partition of 75GB HFS Journal. If you want a 2nd partition for your files, get a 2nd HD... unless you're using a Book.

It should work, though, with two or more partitions.

Have you tried to boot using the OS CD's and go into Disk Utility and format it there? This would then prevent the OS on the hard disk from locking that partition. Also, make sure you are selecting the correct partition. (Not intended to slam you in any way)

 

[Felix_the_Mac]

Re: Re: Panther has stolen 15GB of hard disk!

tomf87:

Thank you very much. That sounds like it might work.

FuzzyBallz:

Originally posted by FuzzyBallz
Wipe the HD and format it as 1 partition of 75GB HFS Journal. If you want a 2nd partition for your files, get a 2nd HD... unless you're using a Book.

I am afraid that that is not a very helpful suggestion.
Do you agree that what I am trying to do should be possible without such dire measures?

 

[LimeLite]

Well...why though? Why do you need to turn your one drive into three partitions? If you don't mind us asking.

 

[tomf87]

Some people like more than one partition on a drive. For example, I use two partitions on my drive, one for system, the other for data. This way I can just backup one volume and know I have everything.

Of course, this won't protect me if a physical drive fails, but the same would happen with just one partition as well, so they are identical in that fashion.

 

[Felix_the_Mac]

Originally posted by LimeLite
Well...why though? Why do you need to turn your one drive into three partitions? If you don't mind us asking.

Well, the 10GB partiton was going to be for an emergency copy of Jaguar, but I haven't needed it.
The 15GB partiton was/is going to be for Linux.

 

[tomf87]

Originally posted by Felix_the_Mac
Well, the 10GB partiton was going to be for an emergency copy of Jaguar, but I haven't needed it.
The 15GB partiton was/is going to be for Linux.

Felix,

You want to let Linux format that one then. Linux should use ext2, ext3, or reiser and MacOS will format it HFS.

Tom