On 1 Mar, this message from Albert Cahalan echoed through cyberspace: >> This is _not_ MS-DOS. There is a place in the partition map that >> contains total disk size (maybe repeated in every partition entry, >> not sure), but that's it. > > So this looks like a bad idea. I'd have to write > a tool to update the partition size or hack it > with some very careful dd commands.
I've done it for a rescue CD I hacked together based on an existing MacOS Rescue CD for my OldWorld. Apple's CD was too small (300MB) for the task :-) >> For instance, what you can do is recreate a new partition map in the >> layout that you want, then dd data from old to new. If new partition >> matches size of old one, you're done. If new is larger, extend with >> apropriate tool. Mac partition tables permit to adjust the size down >> to a single block of granularity, which is important when recreating >> same size partitions on a larger disk. > > For the MacOS 9.1 driver partitions... same thing? > I can just copy them over to a different-sized disk? As Brad explained, apparently not. But I'd expect that if you create a new partition map, and 'merge' old and new, keeping driver partitions at the same place, then that should be OK. Or create the new partition map with a tool like Apple's HD-SC Setup (the patched one), or the Micronet utility, to name those I remember. Although, that would probably mean running your old disk for some time.... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
