[nmglug] disk space again

[Nick Frost]

BrianO'Keefe wrote:

> I have considered that too but am totally freaked out about it! I have
> iPartition which I used to create the 2 partitions in the first place
> and that worked fine so I could do that. It runs in OS X as a live cd.
> I'd rather use GParted, which I have installed in Ubuntu,but don't know
> if it works with ppc Linux versions. I don't have a drive with enough
> space to backup everything before giving it a go so I have been
> effectively frozen.
> thanks for the input!

Brian;

You're welcome. I think you are wise to want/plan to back everything up 
before doing something like changing partitions.  So, I'd say it's 
probably a good idea to do what you have to until you have a drive to 
clone the existing one to (for a backup) before altering partitions. If 
it were me, I would boot from a CD, clone the drive with DD and verify 
it before changing partition sizes, or back-up the data via some other 
means and verify the backups.

It might make sense to wait until you have another drive on hand.  The 
advantage being you can clone and boot the the new drive, and if 
anything went wrong with the copy, you can plug the old drive back in 
and try again.

There are some sweet deals out there now. Macmall is having a sale, 160 
GB external Firewire drive for $74.94.

Laptop drives are affordable, however, if you have a Macintosh laptop, 
installation may be tricky depending on the model you have.  If you have 
the $ or it's a business expense, Dot Foil or Computer Medics, LLC can 
upgrade the drive (to a larger capacity disk) for you.

$64.99 Seagate Momentus 5400.3 ST980815A 80GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache ATA-6 
Notebook Hard Drive - OEM
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148128

good luck.
-Nick



> 
> Nick Frost wrote:
>> BrianO'Keefe wrote:
>>> I've been working on that idea but I already have a 15 gig partition for
>>> Linux on my laptop as well as a 40 gig partition for OS X, which I never
>>> use so I should clone that to my 40 gig usb drive. I have a 160 gig usb
>>> drive that fills up with all my torrent downloads.
>> Just a thought...if you have a 40 gig partition with OS X that you
>> don't use, you could use a partition tool like Partition magic or
>> GParted to shave a few megs off your OS X partition and enlarge your
>> Linux partition.
>>
>> -Nick
>>
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>>
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