[vsurfer]

My partitioning utility is showing me the spinning beach ball for 6 hours last night, should partitioning a 40 GB disk take more than 6 hours? ....and is generally acting uncooperatively

OSX Disk Utility, which is not allowing me to set the sizes of the partitions that way I want them.

I want to rezero & repartition disk into 8 or 10 volumes
Since utility only allows 8 volumes it would be
a. OSX 10.1, 10 GB hfs+
b. OS 9.2, 4 GB hfs+
c. OS 9.1, 5 GB hfs+
d. data 11 GB hfs+
e. scratch 1.5 GB hfs+
f. boot(SuSElinux) .026 GB Hfs standard
g. swap .5 GB A/UX
h. root 5 GB A/UX

Imac DV G3 400
Disk: 40 GB (37.7 GB)Western Digital (previously partitioned into 6 volumes, successfully running OSX and OS 9.1)

When I try “8 partitions” it only wants to allow partitions of uniform size. Even if I try to “lock” the partition size reverts to 3.71 GB or whatever disk utility wants to allow.

When I try “current” – I always end up with oversize 3.79 GB partitions at the end – I can’t seem to get it to make small partitions.

Does the OS9 disk utility work any better. Any thoughts on how to get out of this quagmire.

[smic]

just boot off the os9 cd, it will let you partition to whatever you want

i kinda remember something like the boot partition has to be one of the first partitons, thats how mine is setup to use yaboot

dev/hda6=boot partition
dev/hda7=os9.2
dev/hda8=osx
dev/hda9=os9.2 classic
dev/hda10=linux swap
dev/hda11=linux root
dev/hda12=downloads
dev/hda13=media

and all that seems to work out well

[vsurfer]

Smic,

Thanks, the OS9 disk utility did a much better job.

(How naive of me to think that OSX disk utility would do a better job preparing a disk for OSX & linux ;-)

I did end up with 18mb unallocated at the end, but whatever.

I'm curious - do you keep all your linux applications on your linux root partition?