| Art Alexion on 27 Mar 2009 14:25:52 -0700 |
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On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:36 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote: At 2009-03-27 10:22 -0500, Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com> wrote:It has a 70 GB system partition, and another, seemingly hidden partition named "`" with some system files on itThat is Not Normal. Quite probably a typo on the prior user's part. It looks like the sort of thing that someone might have created by planning to make the argument to tar(1)'s -f the result of a backticked expression but accidentally escaping the backtick and then hitting ^C to get out, as that looks like a subset of what should be under the root partition. The only guy in our IT department familiar with Macs thought it was a failed attempt to install a Windows partition, but it doesn't look like a windows partition to me. It looks like a partial backup of the / filesystem. The partition is not viewable in the Finder app.You should be able to see the partition in Disk Utility (in the finder hit command-shift-u to open the Utilities folder, Disk Utility is in there) and see whence it's mounted... if it's not actually just a directory, which I think it problem is. Does it show up in df(1) or mount(8) output? Yes it appears with both df and mount, and in the Disk Utility. It is an HFS partition and reported as healthy. Any idea what this is and whether I can get rid of it?I'd need to see mtree(8) output to confirm my suspicion above (that it was an accidental tar(1) call), but if I'm right, you can safely remove it. mtree output attached Attachment:
mtree_output Is there anything like parted or gparted included in 10.5.x that I can use to delete this and resize the / partition? ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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