[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

http://www.micromat.com/diskstudio/ds_introduction.html

Don't see how another partition on the SAME drive will help photoshop performance though.

[yukon]

This is a feature that's been missing from the mac.....I remember seeing a program long ago, but I have heard nothing of it since.

Partitioning is somewhat permanent, but requirements change. It's nice to see this, I probably won't be using it because I prize data integrity somewhat highly and this is somewhat questionable, but a "partition magic" replacement on the mac should make a lot of users happy.

[Mr. Blur]

for years we have had to live without a utility that could do non-destructive partitoning/resizing...and now we have 3 of them to choose from when fewer people seem to care about separate partitions.

i might have been interested in this years ago when I had a couple different mac os installs alog with linuxppc and beos....

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

I think it is a great idea but I have a feeling it is a proprietary format, wonder if they will be bootable.

[Sven G]

Finally, some non-destructive disk partitioning programs also on OS X!

Anyway, even more importantly, on the free software front there will be a powerful alternative when SystemRescueCD (PPC version) will include the graphical GNU Parted-based utility QtParted, as previously said by their PPC developer.

The main problem with this free solution is, of course, whether it supports (non-destructive) resizing of HFS+ partitions: probably not at the present level (if one looks at the GNU Parted site), but maybe in the future, hopefully. Anyway, it's interesting to look at the free software alternatives in order to learn something from this approach, too.

On the x86, QtParted works very well (I've used it to resize the main Windows XP partition on my laptop without any problems, in order to make place to Mandrakelinux); the look-and-feel is also quite acceptable, IMHO:





(Of course, it would be even better if Apple's Disk Utility gained built-in partition resizing capabilities in OS X 10.4, as this feature is really a quite basic one, nowadays.)

[Millennium]

Originally posted by Severed Hand of Skywalker:
http://www.micromat.com/diskstudio/ds_introduction.html

Don't see how another partition on the SAME drive will help photoshop performance though.

On the same drive, not much. Putting Classic on an extra partition keeps the filesystem looking a bit cleaner, but that's an aesthetic choice, nothing more.

On the other hand, if you want to try out Linux, this method is much easier than a format/reinstall on the whole disk, and much less expensive than buying a new disk just for Linux, which is impractical for someone just trying it out anyway.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by Millennium:
On the other hand, if you want to try out Linux, this method is much easier than a format/reinstall on the whole disk, and much less expensive than buying a new disk just for Linux, which is impractical for someone just trying it out anyway.

Same goes for those 10.4 beta's

[Sven G]

Actually, it looks like you can already resize HFS+ partitions with GNU Parted: so there's already a free command line solution (and graphical, when QtParted will be available) - very good! Here are some useful links:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=779344

http://board.iexbeta.com/lofiversion...hp/t42724.html

http://lists.linux.it/pipermail/ppc/...er/000344.html

Of course, for newbies the Micromat solution (and others) might be easier, for the time being.

[bewebste]

Originally posted by Millennium:
On the same drive, not much. Putting Classic on an extra partition keeps the filesystem looking a bit cleaner, but that's an aesthetic choice, nothing more.

Actually, there's one small benefit from having Classic on a separate partition. If you start up holding down the option key to choose what system to boot from, you can't choose between OS 9 and OS X if they both reside on the same partition. If you put them on separate partitions, you can then use the option key to choose one or the other. Yeah, not huge, but it can come in handy sometimes.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

"Delete partitions previously created by DiskStudio."

What about partitions created by Disk Utility?