Resize HD not possible

[compufix]

with 10.4.6 you can now resize your partition live with no reformatting.....

from the command line, if you want your OSX partition to be 90 Gig

diskutil list

lists all the partitions find Macintosh HD and look for the Disk ID, something along the lines of disk0s2.

then

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 90G

thats it!....in a minute you will have a resized partition. You can even add more to the command to format the resulting 2nd partition as fat all in one shot, or wait until you install XP.

man diskutil

for full options.

As noted, this is not perfect, they really need to add a DEFRAG option now as well...my MBP had a full HD, I deleted 20 Gigs worth of stuff and it will not let me resize it. I need to re-install OSX fresh, or image my HD, blow it out, and restore it back....bleh...but on a fresh 20" iMac install, it worked like a champ.

-Compufix

[pesos]

so can i somehow use this to have a 3rd common fat32 partition for shared storage between both OSes?

I originally set up a 20 gig partition with disk util with 40 gigs free space, then installed X on it.

then ran boot camp and split the 20 gig partition into two 10 gig partitions.

however when i rebooted and installed XP, it had changed the 10 gig windows partition into 46 gigs (the whole rest of the drive). so i went ahead with the install thinking i could resize the partition later.

I booted with a bartPE disk and ran paragon hard disk manager and resized the win partition down to 16 gigs, but got a missing or damaged hal32.dll error upon rebooting.

so my plan now was to partition 20 gigs for X and 30 gigs for fat32 common drive, then split the 20 gig for X/win but i think boot camp says you have to only have one journaled partition to run it? so can we now use diskutil to format/partition free space after the fact? so ridiculous that OS X has no way to partition/format free space...

-Wes