hfs+ resize gone pear shaped

[David Purton]

Hi,

I've have attempted to resize and hfs+ partition in order to install OSX
10.4 alongside and existing 10.3 install.

Sadly I think I have learnt too late how to do ths, but maybe it is
possible to repair things. Any suggestions appreciated.

This is what I did:

I had a single 40GB hardrive with a single hfs+ partition running OSX
10.3

I used an ubuntu breezy live ppc CD to boot. I then grabed debs of the
lates version of parted and unpacked them. Fixed up library paths so
that all was good.

ran parted and attempted to resize the partition.

It *nearly* worked, but then right at the end I got a fatal: out of
memory error.

I booted back into OSX to see the damage.

The partition is still listed as 40GB, with 15GB used, but 0 Bytes free.

I then grabed the latest debian ppc net install image (probably should
have done this first - you always learn these things too late :( ).

I ran parted again and made a second attempt to resize the partition
down to 30GB. I then created a new partition in the freed up 10GB.

It worked, but the 30GB parition still reports 0Bytes free. and no more
can be written to it. (Deleting data does free up space)

I then installed OSX 10.4 on the 10GB partition and it boots and works.



So the question that I need to know the answer is:

    Can I get back the other 15GB on the other partition or is it lost
    for ever?

    If so how?



Regards,

David

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David Purton
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