Comments on: Scary Disk Munging: Success! http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/ Words Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: vladimir http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1288 vladimir Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:18:28 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1288 @Mox: Sure, but I also can't play games in a VM :) @Mox: Sure, but I also can’t play games in a VM :)

]]> By: Mox http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1287 Mox Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:40:29 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1287 How about importing your existing bootcamp volume into a Windows VM (tools for that exist for both VMWare and Parallels) and then just using Windows inside the (resizable) VM? No separate volumes needed! Of course, you can't do performance measurements on VMs or things like that, but then you have Linux VM already... How about importing your existing bootcamp volume into a Windows VM (tools for that exist for both VMWare and Parallels) and then just using Windows inside the (resizable) VM? No separate volumes needed!

Of course, you can’t do performance measurements on VMs or things like that, but then you have Linux VM already…

]]> By: Asbjørn Ulsberg http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1282 Asbjørn Ulsberg Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:25:31 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1282 GParted has been doing all my repartitioning work quite successfully for a couple of years, now. It probably doesn't work on a Mac, but on a PC it does a fine job. GParted has been doing all my repartitioning work quite successfully for a couple of years, now. It probably doesn’t work on a Mac, but on a PC it does a fine job.

]]> By: ant http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1273 ant Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:38:24 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1273 I did a similar thing to reclaim my C-drive as linux space a few years back using gparted... while re-doing the entire partition scheme and trying to keep the partition numbers in the right order (hda1->7). Sometimes I think this sort of thing's all down to blind luck. I did a similar thing to reclaim my C-drive as linux space a few years back using gparted… while re-doing the entire partition scheme and trying to keep the partition numbers in the right order (hda1->7). Sometimes I think this sort of thing’s all down to blind luck.

]]> By: Robert Accettura http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1270 Robert Accettura Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:28:58 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1270 I really wish Apple included full resizing support in Leopard. IIRC you can resize MBR but not GUID. I really wish Apple included full resizing support in Leopard. IIRC you can resize MBR but not GUID.

]]> By: Rob Russell http://blog.vlad1.com/2008/04/07/scary-disk-munging-success/comment-page-1/#comment-1268 Rob Russell Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:00:08 +0000 http://blog.vlad1.com/?p=51#comment-1268 Nice to hear a happy ending sometimes. I think we all tend to write a lot more about things that go wrong. Nice to hear a happy ending sometimes. I think we all tend to write a lot more about things that go wrong.

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