partitioning (mac)

[Peter Lieverdink]

I'm hold that parted can shrink hfs+ without problems. It *will*
complain about resizing an unknown fs type.

I've got Ubuntu and Tiger running on a Mac mini here and had previously
mapped the 'Users' dir (/mnt/mac/Users) to /home on Ubuntu, so I could
share a single homedir between the two OSes. (I renumbered the Ubuntu
users to match the OSX uids).

>From that comes this word of warning: Don't. hfs+ does NOT like to be
written to a lot under Linux. I've had to diskwarrior the hfs+ side
twice in the past month, due to errors too severe for disk utility to
fix. Badness occurs!

I'm back to mounting hfs+ read-only and having the user's homedirs on
ext3 under Ubuntu. As added bonus, that means beagle can now run on it,
too.

Cheers,
- Peter.

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 16:23 -0700, Steven Didier wrote:
> I have used a dual boot system with several versions of Linux alongside OSX
> since the first Panther. Right now I have Tiger and Kbuntu on my Ti
> Powerbook.
> Steve
> 
> 
> On 9/6/05 11:58 AM, "Renato Henriques" <repehe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Here we go.  This must be one of the most if not the most spoken issue
> > for Linux users, specially newbies like me.
> > 
> > As anyone experienced partitioning one disk where mac os X is installed
> > with Ubuntu, side by side?  I could never do it. I'm glad I have two
> > disks.  I would appreciate anyone sharing that beautiful experience
> > with me. Please..............?