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Re: [PLUG] Mac Mini/BSD question
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About 4 gb
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Art Alexion
Sent unsigned from an iPod. That's the reason for the top posting as
well.
On Mar 27, 2009, at 5:40 PM, Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig_97@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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> I'm curious, if I did not miss something earlier, how big the extra
> partition is.
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> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: Art Alexion <art.alexion@gmail.com>
>> To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org
>> >
>> Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:25:42 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Mac Mini/BSD question
>>
>>
>> On Mar 27, 2009, at 3:36 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
>>
>>> At 2009-03-27 10:22 -0500, Art Alexion wrote:
>>>> It has a 70 GB system partition, and another, seemingly hidden
>>>> partition named "`" with some system files on it
>>>
>>> That 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.
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>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 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
>>
>> Is there anything like parted or gparted included in 10.5.x that I
>> can use to
>> delete this and resize the / partition?
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