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[Mactel-linux-users] how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

Hi everyone.
Sorry if this email sounds rude/rough, but I have reinstall OSX 3 times today.
All I want to do is nicely format my hard drive. No swap, nothing
fancy. I want to shrink the OSX parition (disk0s2) from the full 186GB
to only 25GB, add a new partition for my Linux "/" with 129GB and
finally one for Windwos with 30GB.
All the sites from Goolge use some "Linux" as the filesystem type for
the parameter in diskutil. That is plain _WRONG_ with a 10.5 OSX
install. There is no such thing! To make it even better, diskutil
creates two empty partitions infront of the HFS+ partition. As a
result I can not merge these partitions back in without dumping my OSX
install.

Can someone please be kind enough to provide me with the correct
"filesystem" parameter needed to perform this action? Even better
would be a "full" diskutil call...

-- 
Felipe Sere

PS: How the f### can Apple ship a partitioning tool that is not able
to delete partitions? Which trainee got to play a little and write
this 'tool'?

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi everyone.

Hello,

> Sorry if this email sounds rude/rough, but I have reinstall OSX 3 times today.
> All I want to do is nicely format my hard drive. No swap, nothing
> fancy. I want to shrink the OSX parition (disk0s2) from the full 186GB
> to only 25GB, add a new partition for my Linux "/" with 129GB and
> finally one for Windwos with 30GB.
> All the sites from Goolge use some "Linux" as the filesystem type for
> the parameter in diskutil. That is plain _WRONG_ with a 10.5 OSX
> install. There is no such thing! To make it even better, diskutil
> creates two empty partitions infront of the HFS+ partition. As a
> result I can not merge these partitions back in without dumping my OSX
> install.
>
> Can someone please be kind enough to provide me with the correct
> "filesystem" parameter needed to perform this action? Even better
> would be a "full" diskutil call...

Why don't you just partition your disk using Disk Utility with all the
partition you want _before_ you install Mac OS X?

You could use this partition scheme:
1. EFI (hidden by Disk Utility)
2. Mac OS X
3. Windows
4. Linux
5. swap
6. home

The partitions 5 and 6 wlll not be visible on the MBR but Linux will
be able to use them.

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau

[Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Felipe Sere <do...@gm...>
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] how to partition hdd with diskutil?
To: Ludovic Rousseau <lud...@gm...>


I'd sure love to do that, but Gparted can't make HSF+ partitions
(correct me if I am wrong) and diskutil is utter CRAP. Disk Utility
(the GUI) is even worse, as it only allows me to make HFS+ partitions.
Which _might_ also be a good thing if I can do stuff "the way I want
to".
I could Disk Utility to make all the partition scheme the way you
described and then use (g)parted to make the Linux ones ext3/xfs/swap
respectively and then the Windows one FAT32. Does this procedure
tamper with the partition order?
The correct order shold be:
1. EFI (the hidden one)
2. MacOS X
3. Linux "/"
4. Windows
5. Linux /home
5. SWAP


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Ludovic Rousseau
<lud...@gm...> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>
> Hello,
>
>> Sorry if this email sounds rude/rough, but I have reinstall OSX 3 times today.
>> All I want to do is nicely format my hard drive. No swap, nothing
>> fancy. I want to shrink the OSX parition (disk0s2) from the full 186GB
>> to only 25GB, add a new partition for my Linux "/" with 129GB and
>> finally one for Windwos with 30GB.
>> All the sites from Goolge use some "Linux" as the filesystem type for
>> the parameter in diskutil. That is plain _WRONG_ with a 10.5 OSX
>> install. There is no such thing! To make it even better, diskutil
>> creates two empty partitions infront of the HFS+ partition. As a
>> result I can not merge these partitions back in without dumping my OSX
>> install.
>>
>> Can someone please be kind enough to provide me with the correct
>> "filesystem" parameter needed to perform this action? Even better
>> would be a "full" diskutil call...
>
> Why don't you just partition your disk using Disk Utility with all the
> partition you want _before_ you install Mac OS X?
>
> You could use this partition scheme:
> 1. EFI (hidden by Disk Utility)
> 2. Mac OS X
> 3. Windows
> 4. Linux
> 5. swap
> 6. home
>
> The partitions 5 and 6 wlll not be visible on the MBR but Linux will
> be able to use them.
>
> Bye
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>



--
Felipe Sere



-- 
Felipe Sere

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Ludovic R. <lud...@gm...>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
> I'd sure love to do that, but Gparted can't make HSF+ partitions
> (correct me if I am wrong) and diskutil is utter CRAP. Disk Utility
> (the GUI) is even worse, as it only allows me to make HFS+ partitions.
> Which _might_ also be a good thing if I can do stuff "the way I want
> to".
> I could Disk Utility to make all the partition scheme the way you
> described and then use (g)parted to make the Linux ones ext3/xfs/swap
> respectively and then the Windows one FAT32. Does this procedure
> tamper with the partition order?

Just use (g)parted to change the partition type from HFS+ to Linux. I
don't know about Windows partition. Maybe (g)parted can be used to
change the partition type to FAT32 or something desired by Windows.

This would not change the partition order. Just the partition types.

bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau

Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

So that is my battle plan for this afternoon:
Use Disk Utilitly to create the partitions as HFS+
Reformat them with (G)parted
Install XP
Install Linux
I need to get some chocolate first to avoid major frustrations.
I will report back on success/failure. Might have to write a wiki entry so that

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ludovic Rousseau
<lud...@gm...> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
>> I'd sure love to do that, but Gparted can't make HSF+ partitions
>> (correct me if I am wrong) and diskutil is utter CRAP. Disk Utility
>> (the GUI) is even worse, as it only allows me to make HFS+ partitions.
>> Which _might_ also be a good thing if I can do stuff "the way I want
>> to".
>> I could Disk Utility to make all the partition scheme the way you
>> described and then use (g)parted to make the Linux ones ext3/xfs/swap
>> respectively and then the Windows one FAT32. Does this procedure
>> tamper with the partition order?
>
> Just use (g)parted to change the partition type from HFS+ to Linux. I
> don't know about Windows partition. Maybe (g)parted can be used to
> change the partition type to FAT32 or something desired by Windows.
>
> This would not change the partition order. Just the partition types.
>
> bye
>
> --
>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>



-- 
Felipe Sere

[Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?

[Felipe S. <do...@gm...>]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Felipe Sere <do...@gm...>
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Fwd: how to partition hdd with diskutil?
To: Ludovic Rousseau <lud...@gm...>


Partial success.
I have installed Windows, for some stupid reason it also formatted my
120GB Linux partiion to NTFS, but I didn't care about that. My problem
now is, that with Gparted I had to set a boot flag for XP (after the
formatting of ext and my swap it was suddenly gone!) and now it shows
up as EFI System in my GPT, as you can see below. Is there a way to
change this back to some MS type?

Current GPT partition table:
 #      Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1             40       409639  EFI System (FAT)
 2         409640     52576295  Mac OS X HFS+
 3       52838440    322303327  Basic Data
 4      322565472    385480031  EFI System (FAT)
 5      385742176    390459783  Linux Swap

Current MBR partition table:
 # A    Start LBA      End LBA  Type
 1              1       409639  ee  EFI Protective
 2         409640     52576295  af  Mac OS X HFS+
 3       52838440    322303327  83  Linux
 4 *    322565472    385480031  0c  FAT32 (LBA)

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:26 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
> So that is my battle plan for this afternoon:
> Use Disk Utilitly to create the partitions as HFS+
> Reformat them with (G)parted
> Install XP
> Install Linux
> I need to get some chocolate first to avoid major frustrations.
> I will report back on success/failure. Might have to write a wiki entry so that
>
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Ludovic Rousseau
> <lud...@gm...> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Felipe Sere <do...@gm...> wrote:
>>> I'd sure love to do that, but Gparted can't make HSF+ partitions
>>> (correct me if I am wrong) and diskutil is utter CRAP. Disk Utility
>>> (the GUI) is even worse, as it only allows me to make HFS+ partitions.
>>> Which _might_ also be a good thing if I can do stuff "the way I want
>>> to".
>>> I could Disk Utility to make all the partition scheme the way you
>>> described and then use (g)parted to make the Linux ones ext3/xfs/swap
>>> respectively and then the Windows one FAT32. Does this procedure
>>> tamper with the partition order?
>>
>> Just use (g)parted to change the partition type from HFS+ to Linux. I
>> don't know about Windows partition. Maybe (g)parted can be used to
>> change the partition type to FAT32 or something desired by Windows.
>>
>> This would not change the partition order. Just the partition types.
>>
>> bye
>>
>> --
>>  Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Felipe Sere
>



--
Felipe Sere



-- 
Felipe Sere