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Partitioning for intel from ppc
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I have a MBPro on the way. I went out and got myself an external HD to back up my desktop (PPC G5) onto, in prep for transitioning. I am trying to partition into three pieces
1: 250 gb to be used as back up for new MBP
2: 40 gb to be used as back up old Pismo
3: 110 gb to be used as general dump drive for movies, photo backup, etc
I chose - MacOS extended, case sensitive, journaled for all three partitions, and chose tGUID as my partition scheme, so I can boot my MBP from the backup, if need be.
Trouble is, it seems to be stalling on the "creating partition map" step. How long should this take? Am I attempting a legitimate partitioning scheme?
-A
(Apologies if this is the wrong section of the forum - I can't quite decide where it belongs)
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You might try wiping/re-formatting the drive without attempting the partition. Once complete, retry the partitioning scheme.
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On an external drive, you can use Apple Partition Map or GUID. The Intel Macs only insist on GUID partition maps on internal boot drives.
When I repartitioned an old HD for a Windows user, it did take a very long time to lay down a Master Boot Record partition map.
Any particular reason why you chose case-sensitive?
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Originally Posted by reader50 
On an external drive, you can use Apple Partition Map or GUID. The Intel Macs only insist on GUID partition maps on internal boot drives.
That's good news - I tried it with APM and it took about 45 seconds.
Originally Posted by reader50
Any particular reason why you chose case-sensitive?
No great reason - Just thought since Unix is case sensitive, and I use a fair amount of commandline stuff, I would be better off being case sensitive. Is there any drawback to being case-sensitive?
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Originally Posted by Juneappal
No great reason - Just thought since Unix is case sensitive, and I use a fair amount of commandline stuff, I would be better off being case sensitive. Is there any drawback to being case-sensitive?
Plenty. Some applications, include many from Adobe, expect '/path/to/folder' and 'path/To/folder' to be the same thing. Under a case sensitive system, they are not, and the Application won't run.
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Well that's a pain, isn't it. I suppose I better stick with Mac Conventions, then, but I don't like it.
Thanks for your help, by the way.
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