Re: Linux on the Mac Mini -- Updated

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 04:31:25PM +0100, ViCToRy wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:10:29PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > >  1) debian-installer provided libparted based partman partitioner should be
> > > >  able to resize HFS and HFS+ partititons, i have not personally played much
> > > >  with it, but it should work. Feedback is welcome.
> > > 
> > > That's clever. I'll have to give it a go one day. Does it support journalled
> > > HFS+?  The Mac Mini ships with a single journalled HFS+ partition spanning the
> > > entire disk. I'm not sure how journalling was implemented in HFS+, presumably
> > > it's backwards-compatible?
> > 
> > Not sure, please give it a try, and submit a bug report if it fails, and we
> > will see if K.G. will be able to fix it, he is the author of the libparted
> > HFS-resize patch.
> 
> I've just installed sarge on macmini using debian-installer.
> 
> It doesn't support journalled HFS+, when you tries to resize it, it
> gives a warning that it cannont be resized if journaling is active.

Please make sure to fill a bug report against parted about this.

> i've went back to OSX and disable it. then parted goes smooth :)

Cool,

Friendly,

Sven Luther