OT: resize a FreeBSD slice on a hard drive in a PPC Mac?

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:20:37 -0400
Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > Which tool can I use to resize a partition / slice on a hard drive  
> > in a PowerPC Mac?
> > The layout on my FreeBSD hard drive in my G5 currently looks like  
> > this:
> > root at kg-g5# gpart show ad0
> > =>       18  625142430  ad0  APM  (298G)
> >         18       1600    1  apple-boot  (800K)
> >       1618  616562688    2  freebsd-ufs  (294G)
> >  616564306    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
> >  624952914     189534       - free -  (93M)
> >
> > I want to have several versions of FreeBSD on it, and thus need to  
> > resize it.
> > Normally I would just use GNU parted for this, but haven't been able  
> > to locate a image with that on which will boot on a PPC mac.
> >
> > If not possible I will have to reinstall everything.
> > -- 
> > Torfinn
> 
> Be careful, by default APM will only support 8 partitions.  So if you  
> need more than 8 in total you'll need to start over.

Really? I didn't know that. Thanks!
Well, it means I have 5 left now:
root at kg-g5# gpart show ad0
=>       18  625142430  ad0  APM  (298G)
         18       1600    1  apple-boot  (800K)
       1618  155189248    2  freebsd-ufs  (74G)
  155190866    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
  163579474  461562974       - free -  (220G)

(if I can figure out the multiboot, that is)
-- 
Torfinn