Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: fhirsch on Dec 01, '04 07:04:33PM

Older iMacs (333 MHz and older), as well as older machines, need to partition the hard disk to less than 8GBytes in order to install Mac OS X. I was wondering if repartitioning can be used to unify the partitions into only one once Mac OS X is installed? And, supposing that it where possible, would it be a problem when updating/upgrading?
Francisco



[ Reply to This | # ]
iPartition - Resize disk partitions without formatting
Authored by: _merlin on Dec 02, '04 07:05:27AM

You might be able to, but it would be a very bad idea. If a software update placed a system file needed early in the boot process in a location outside the first 8GB of the drive, the machine would no longer boot. On the older G3 Macs, you really must keep the boot partition entirely within the first 8GB of the disk.



[ Reply to This | # ]