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

Torfinn Ingolfsen torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no
Sun Mar 20 19:32:37 UTC 2011


On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 19:20:20 +0100
Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> wrote:

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

This[1] references seems to indicate that APm should support as many partitions as one would
want: "APM can describe as many partitions as required, whereas DOS is limited to 4 primary partitions."
Which way is correct?
References:
1) http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.23/23.03/APMtoGPT/index.html
-- 
Torfinn



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