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