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

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Sun Mar 20 15:42:55 UTC 2011


You'll need someone to make a live debian ppc cd for you.
I'm not sure if GNU parted will fit on it. I can try.

Give me a few moments and I'll let you know.



On 3/20/11, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen at broadpark.no> 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
>
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