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[ILUG] Non-Destructive Partitioning

[ILUG] Non-Destructive Partitioning

Gavin McCullagh gmccullagh at gmail.com
Mon Feb 20 08:29:06 GMT 2006


On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Mark Page wrote:
> 
> > Really want to get Ubuntu on my iBook but it seems I can't do it  without 
> > wiping the disk with a re-install thus allowing me to re- partition. Does 
> > anybody know if there is a re-partition tool out  there that will allow me 
> > to preserve my OSX without wiping clean?
> 
> GNU Parted claims to be able to shrink HFS+ partitions:

Naturally for any of these you'll want to backup all important data.  You
may find that the newest Debian (and therefore Ubuntu) installer versions
may have this built in (Dapper perhaps).

Actually, this looks like it might help more:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89960

Gavin




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