Comments on: Resizing Partitions on Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

By: Alan again

Alan again — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 02:19:12 +0000

It worked!

After adding the new partition, the partition number for Windows is changed from 3(default) to 4.

So the new boot.ini would be like this:

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:51:52 +0000

New partition can be created this way however bootcamp (WIN XP) ran into a blue screen and can not boot any more. I had to put everything back(delete the newly created partition) and then Win XP is back.

By: Robert W

Robert W — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:53:20 +0000

This worked perfectly! I had to reboot using the Leopard dvd and use the disk utility to resize there. It would not resize until I removed all files over 1GB in size. Bootcamp still wouldn’t resize either before or after. The volume had to be unmounted which is why I had to boot using the install dvd and use the disk utility. I ignored /dev and /net as well when removing and backing up the files over 1GB. I also had to change the last command to:
sudo pmset -a `cat ~/current_mode.txt`

By: Frustrated OSX User

Frustrated OSX User — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:11:12 +0000

The attempt is appreciated but this does not work. This is a known bug in Leopard and is not solvable. Quite simply put, Apple had misrepresented this feature.

Nice try though.

By: Alex Carter

Alex Carter — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 06:17:19 +0000

Unfortunately doesn’t work for me – even if I boot from the DVD it doesn’t allow me to resize. May be there is something else to do before resizing?

By: Moh

Moh — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:42:11 +0000

thank’s so much for this posting.
really useful.

By: ms995

ms995 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:59:00 +0000

This article was quite useful to me. However, the last pmset command should be

sudo pmset -a `cat ~/current_mode.txt`

The file current_mode.txt already has “hibernatemode “

By: Kasey

Kasey — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 15:33:41 +0000

Thank you for posting this!!! I couldn’t figure out why I kept getting out of space errors when trying to resize my Leopard partition. Now I know why.

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