Re: [PLUG] Mac Mini/BSD question

[Edmond Rodriguez <erodrig_97@yahoo.com>]

I'm curious, if I did not miss something earlier, how big the extra partition is. 



----- 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.
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> >> 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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