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Tyler McAdams · Jan 18, 2005, 07:11 PM

Partition Magic, for those who do not know what it is, is a piece of software from a company called Drive Quest (recently bought out by Symantec) that can resize and re-partition hard drives and logical partitions in a non-destructive manner. For example, if you have free space on a drive and you'd like to make it in to a separate partition you would use Partition Magic to create this new partition that would appear on your desktop as a new logical partiton. Likewise if you had a boot drive that you would like to backup you could create a backup by resizing the orginal partition and copy it to the free space to make a cloned image. These are a few examples of what this type of utility can do for you.

This was posted here in the past and somebody *did* find an application that did that but I was unable to find it here or on google... thx in advance for any help!

Superchicken · Jan 18, 2005, 07:49 PM

Why do you need to partition on a Mac? Planning on installing Linux or something?

Ganesha · Jan 18, 2005, 08:19 PM

iPartition: http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php

CharlesS · Jan 18, 2005, 08:20 PM

http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iPartition.php

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/d...enius_info.php

http://www.subrosasoft.com/thestore/...roducts_id=431

No idea how well any of these programs work, as I haven't tried any of them.

Mr. Blur · Jan 18, 2005, 08:51 PM

and don't forget the other new one:
http://www.micromat.com/diskstudio/ds_introduction.html

Tyler McAdams · Jan 18, 2005, 09:00 PM

Originally posted by Superchicken:
Why do you need to partition on a Mac? Planning on installing Linux or something?

I have a raid0 array that is my main hard drive... this is backed up daily via psync to an ATA drive. Right now I'm in the middle of reconfiguring my G4 to make the ATA drive the primary boot drive so I can use the array for DV editing, swap, scratch disk...etc. But I still want a backup drive... I want to make this a logic partition on the ATA drive. (I know... no hardware redundancy... I'll be doing offline backups as well)

Also I've got some data on a few other drives that I'd like to split up in to partitons w/o having to go to the trouble of moving everything off the disks and repartitioning.

It will be a usefull app... I use PM all the time on my XP workstations for misc things.

Rickster · Jan 18, 2005, 10:36 PM

Theoretically (haven't tried this myself), you could just use /usr/sbin/pdisk from the command line (when booted from another disk, or maybe in single-user mode) to split and join partitions... assuming your data is in the right places within each partition, wiring a new partition map may "just work". Not for the faint of heart, though.

Tyler McAdams · 11:05 PM

Originally posted by Rickster:
Theoretically (haven't tried this myself), you could just use /usr/sbin/pdisk from the command line (when booted from another disk, or maybe in single-user mode) to split and join partitions... assuming your data is in the right places within each partition, wiring a new partition map may "just work". Not for the faint of heart, though.

That had crossed my mind... but I think I'd be more confortable doing it with an app designed to... after all, you'd have nobody to complain to after things went wrong!

tooki · Jan 18, 2005, 11:05 PM

Please remember in the future that the Mac OS forum is NOT the place for questions about applications. The Applications forum is their designated location, as is CLEARLY indicated in the forum descriptions.

tooki

starman · Jan 25, 2005, 06:41 PM

Who has used iPartition? I need to know if it works well.

Mike