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From: lennymccoy on 17 Jul 2008 08:32
Hi

Moved over to mac from PC and a little unsure of partition management
on the mac.

I am running wmware fusion to run a bootcamp partition to boot into
windows xp, the problem i have is that i am running out of space.

Can i copy the partition over to an external hdd and then create a
snapshot or something to get this to work ? I have an external hdd
running firewire 800 with a 500gb partition which is currently mac os
extended formatted. My old pc days i would have used partition manager
to shrink the mac partition and create a new fat32 partition but dont
know how to do this.

sorry to be so dim but a little in the dark here.

anyone help me out.

Mark
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 19 Jul 2008 13:59
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:32:59 -0700 (PDT), lennymccoy(a)googlemail.com
wrote:

>Hi
>
>Moved over to mac from PC and a little unsure of partition management
>on the mac.
>
>I am running wmware fusion to run a bootcamp partition to boot into
>windows xp, the problem i have is that i am running out of space.

You'd better unpack that sentence a bit, it's rather confusing.

VMware Fusion allows you to run either a virtual machine with its hard
drive in a file, but also allows you to run your Boot Camp partition
under OSX rather than having to reboot into Windows. Which are you
actually doing? Where are you running out of space? I'd guess the
Windows Boot Camp partition, but:

>Can i copy the partition over to an external hdd and then create a
>snapshot or something to get this to work?

Snapshots only apply to virtual machines with hard drives in a file,
not Boot Camped Windows installations.

And, get what to work?

>I have an external hdd
>running firewire 800 with a 500gb partition which is currently mac os
>extended formatted. My old pc days i would have used partition manager
>to shrink the mac partition and create a new fat32 partition but dont
>know how to do this.

Applications, Utilities, Disk Utility is the OSX equivalent. But note
that you can't have a Boot Camp C: drive on an external disk. I think
you can have a D: drive on one though, but VMware may not be clever
enough to see it if you boot up as a virtual machine...

All a bit tangled, eh? So start again, and tell us what you really
want.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"If we do not change the direction we are going, we are likely to
end up where we are headed." - anon
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