OT: resize a FreeBSD slice on a hard drive in a PPC Mac?

[Justin Hibbits]

On Mar 20, 2011, at 6:32 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Which tool can I use to resize a partition / slice on a hard drive  
> in a PowerPC Mac?
> The layout on my FreeBSD hard drive in my G5 currently looks like  
> this:
> root at kg-g5# gpart show ad0
> =>       18  625142430  ad0  APM  (298G)
>         18       1600    1  apple-boot  (800K)
>       1618  616562688    2  freebsd-ufs  (294G)
>  616564306    8388608    3  freebsd-swap  (4.0G)
>  624952914     189534       - free -  (93M)
>
> I want to have several versions of FreeBSD on it, and thus need to  
> resize it.
> Normally I would just use GNU parted for this, but haven't been able  
> to locate a image with that on which will boot on a PPC mac.
>
> If not possible I will have to reinstall everything.
> -- 
> Torfinn

Be careful, by default APM will only support 8 partitions.  So if you  
need more than 8 in total you'll need to start over.

- Justin