Partitioning Question

[gibbs]

I wanted to cut a chunk out of my existing hard disk [out of the un-used space] to create a new partition on the same physical disk. Currently the disk is straight out of the factory, fully formatted 60 gigs 1 partition.

I wanted to do this without destroying the data [ie. the original partition]. Is there a non-destructive partitioning App I can use in OS X? Or any at all for mac? For windows, the equivalent program would be Partition Magic.

So basically Im looking for partition magic equivalent for the mac. Sheesh, I should have just said that in the first place huh?

system-
Imac 800mhz / Superdrive / 512mb Ram
OWC Oxford chipset external Drive bay w/40gb IBM HD via Firewire

[tk4two1]

Nope, no way it can be done. If you must partition you'll have to reinstall everything. Does apple still supply the software restore disks? If so, you could partition your drive and run the software restore to replace all the contents like it came from the factory.

[lethe]

FWB makes a software called HDT (or maybe it was HDK) stands for hard disk toolkit. it can resize HFS partitions.

[xaqintosh]

is it possible to change the one partition (I have like six) from HFS+ to HP/UX?

[lethe]

the linux fdisk program seems to be able to format a volume to any filesystem. at least it has something like 100 choices

[gibbs]

thanks lethe, i had heard about HDT from FWB...I was curious to see if there was any competition, I would have honestly expected there to be at least more than one util. Lets hope there is a util in the works for OS X !

Thanks again, I will try HDT tonight and report my results.

[level9]

Originally posted by lethe
FWB makes a software called HDT (or maybe it was HDK) stands for hard disk toolkit. it can resize HFS partitions.

It was my impression it would only do it if it was used to format the drive in the first place, otherwise it would'nt be able to partition without formatting.