[ares1]

I recently dumped my pitiful little 4 giger and got a beefy 60 gig hard drive. Well, beefy for me, anyways.

When I partitioned upon installation of the hard drive, I made three partitions 20 gigs each. Now I have files spread out across the three (with probably around 5 gigs on the entire drive) with most of it on one of them. I want to install linux (I have done that twice before) but I need to repartition. Instead of burning 12+ CDs of backup, partitioning, and reinstalling everything, it would be great if I could move it all into one partition and split one of the partitions into 3 for linux. This way, I would have a 20 gig partition, another 20 gig partition, and then the last partition split up into 3 parts for linuxppc.

Is there a way I can repartition just the one partition (methinks I have typed partition enough time to last a life time) without initializing the other two? Is there some 3rd party tool or something?

Thanks,
ares

[Sven G]

If I remember well, FWB Software's Hard Disk Toolkit can resize partitions non-destructively - you could check out their site at:

http://www.fwb.com


(But be sure to read the product specifications thoroughly...)

[ 03-06-2002: Message edited by: Sven G ]

[v8q]

Originally posted by ares1:
<STRONG>I recently dumped my pitiful little 4 giger and got a beefy 60 gig hard drive. Well, beefy for me, anyways.

When I partitioned upon installation of the hard drive, I made three partitions 20 gigs each. Now I have files spread out across the three (with probably around 5 gigs on the entire drive) with most of it on one of them. I want to install linux (I have done that twice before) but I need to repartition. Instead of burning 12+ CDs of backup, partitioning, and reinstalling everything, it would be great if I could move it all into one partition and split one of the partitions into 3 for linux. This way, I would have a 20 gig partition, another 20 gig partition, and then the last partition split up into 3 parts for linuxppc.

Is there a way I can repartition just the one partition (methinks I have typed partition enough time to last a life time) without initializing the other two? Is there some 3rd party tool or something?

Thanks,
ares</STRONG>

Can you just copy all the files you want to keep onto one partition - then use pdisk to slice up the linux partition?

If you use mac partitioning tools I think you can only have a total of 8 partitions. With pdisk you can have 64.
You can probably boot the linux install disk (You DID mead YDL linux and not linuxppc - right?) and run pdisk from there. There is a mac os version of pdisk too if you need to go that way.