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Swapping partitions?
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Hi all,
here's my little dilemna. I recently got a used powerbook that has OS X on one partition, and OS 9 on another. The partition with X is a very tiny partition, whereas the OS 9 partition is big. I'd really like to be able to keep all of my documents, images, videos, music, etc all in my home folder on the OS X partition, but I don't have room. My question is: is it possible to totally swap the contents of one partition for the other? My was that I might create a "temporary" folder on the OS 9 partition, dragged the contents of the OS X partition into that, then moved OS 9 into the small partition and move the contents of the "temporary" folder out. That all seems a little too simple though. Would that work? If not, is there a way to swap the contents of the two partitions? Thanks!
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You can't copy an OS X installation in the Finder. You'll have to use an app like Carbon Copy Cloner. OS 9, on the other hand, you can move manually just fine.
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As wataru said, you can't do it as easy as in the OS 9 days...
I suggest doing an image of the OS X partition, and restore it into the OS 9 partition
(to understand how this can be done, go to the terminal and type: man asr
or search this forum or the internet for restoring images in OS X or something like that...
If you're in trouble with that technique, I suggest backing up the imprtant settings and files, and install the system from the CD/DVD
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CarbonCopyCloner sounds much easier to use than Apple System Restore.
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Originally posted by wataru:
CarbonCopyCloner sounds much easier to use than Apple System Restore.
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You can even Carbon Copy Clone (CCC) to a Firewire drive, boot from the FW drive, then reformat, partition and whatever, the internal drive. CCC back onto the internal drive and then set the startup disk back to the internal HDD.
I did this about at year ago when my iMac internal drive needed to be upgraded.
Jochen
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that's another option.
I'm very glad with the apple system restore, but if people prefer CCC, then go for it 
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
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Apple's restore isn't just a command-line function: just use Disk Utility in 10.3. Click on a disk, then on the Restore tab. You drag the source disk over, and then the destination. It's not hard!
tooki
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that's right (and I forgot to mention that
In fact I only use the disk utility method and not the terminal (I gave the man asr tip, to get him started 
thanks for reminding the disk utility!
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