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

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mar 20, 2011, at 3:32 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> 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

It can, but from my experience, it only does it in groups of 8, and is  
statically allocated.  It doesn't support allocating more partitions  
dynamically like the extended partition table with MBR, so you have to  
decide how many up front you want.

- Justin