[nmglug] disk space again

[BrianO'Keefe]

Thanks again-all good advice!

Nick Frost wrote:
> 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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