Comments on: How to turn a Intel Mac Mini into a $900 paperweight http://berrange.com/posts/2007/02/04/how-to-turn-a-intel-mac-mini-into-a-900-paperweight/ Writing about photography, open source software, virtualization & more Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ruben http://berrange.com/posts/2007/02/04/how-to-turn-a-intel-mac-mini-into-a-900-paperweight/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Ruben Sun, 04 Feb 2007 18:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.berrange.com/?p=48#comment-51 You're right in that fdisk doesn't support GPT disks. Parted does, but you have to resync GPT with MBR with rEFIt afterwards. I blew the install on my Macbook Pro away with fdisk as well.<br /><br />BootCamp is nothing more than a bunch of windows drivers. What Apple did with the 10.4.6 update is<br />- enable some kind of hybrid GPT-MBR mode<br />- add online HFS+ resizing to diskutil.<br /><br />So you don't have to use Bootcamp, have a look at the diskutil manpage, and search for resizeVolume.<br /><br />There's now a Myths and Facts page on the rEFIt site with more of this stuff. You’re right in that fdisk doesn’t support GPT disks. Parted does, but you have to resync GPT with MBR with rEFIt afterwards. I blew the install on my Macbook Pro away with fdisk as well.

BootCamp is nothing more than a bunch of windows drivers. What Apple did with the 10.4.6 update is
- enable some kind of hybrid GPT-MBR mode
- add online HFS+ resizing to diskutil.

So you don’t have to use Bootcamp, have a look at the diskutil manpage, and search for resizeVolume.

There’s now a Myths and Facts page on the rEFIt site with more of this stuff.

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