Yesterday I tried to install Linux Debian unsuccesfully (booting from instalation cd). In the proces of instalation I reformated my second partition, which was already created in DiskUtility in OS X. Then I got stuck so I restarted my power book coming back to OS X. The second partition was lost in finder as well as in disk utility. At the moment I'm missing 8 GB of the capacity. How can I recreate this lost space without having to erase and reformat the whole hard disk?Thanks for help.
hayne
04-08-2006, 05:46 PM
You haven't made it clear if you are missing space on the OS X partition or if you are asking about recovering access to the other partition.
In general, you should have a full backup before adventuring into Linux installation or anything that involves reformatting, etc.
The easiest thing to do (assuming a good backup) would be to completely erase the disk and reinstall OS X.
casares
04-09-2006, 03:28 AM
to Hayne
I'm asking about recovering acces to the other nonOSX partition which was intented to host Linux. I don't see it. I made a back up but still I would prefer any other solution than reinstall.
hayne
04-09-2006, 03:37 AM
I'm asking about recovering acces to the other nonOSX partition which was intented to host Linux.
You might be able to recover it by using the new facilities added to 'diskutil' in 10.4.6:
http://www.macgeekery.com/tips/cli/nondestructively_resizing_volumes
Probably not - because this new facility apparently only applies to GPT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table)-drives.
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