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

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

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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
>



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