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[Gian Uberto Lauri]

Sorry if this breaks the threading...

>>>>> "UH" == Ulrich Hobelmann <u.hobelmann@web.de> writes:

UH> Thanks!  That solves the display problem.

UH> Emacs doesn't work with the Mac input method, though (alt-s doesn't do
UH> ß, but §).  I suspect the Alt key is mapped for something...

Using the  Emacs Input Method  (I prefer this  since I use Emacs  in 3
differnt OS) solves the problem.  You can choose between german prefix
where ß  is the result  of the sequence  " and s (prefix  version work
somethin  like iso-accents-mode,  so wovels  with umlauts  are entered
with the sequence " (wovel)) and german postfix where you get the same
result by hitting  s and then z. In this mode  wovels with umlauts are
entered typing what I think is  the "no umlaut version" of the word (I
don't speak German -blame on me- so I'm not sure...).

>> Hmmm...  I think thak  the use  of mac  roman is  in second  place for
>> deserving  a  rightful  spanking  (for  Apple  developers)  after  the
>> implementation of cp, mv and so on ... :)
>>

UH> What's wrong with cp, mv ...?
UH> Aren't they just from FreeBSD?

The commands  do come  from BSD  or GNU. But  the filesystem  not, and
those smarties did not adapt the commands to the filesystem.

So  if  you cp  a  file  you cp  just  the  data  losing the  extended
attributes.  mv  should behave  likewise too.  There  are a  couple of
utilities that fix this in the development stuff. I never used them as
I use my iMac  as a Unix box and I don't care  of the other file forks
(btw does someone know a free  utility to repartition the disk to make
place to an healy Debian GNU/Linux ?).

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Re:

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2005 um 15:48 schrieb Gian Uberto Lauri:

> (btw does someone know a free  utility to repartition the disk to make
> place to an healy Debian GNU/Linux ?).

When you boot into Debian you're offered to repartition any Mac volume 
-- that's presumingly not that what you want? If so you could try to 
boot into OpenBSD or NetBSD. I think both have a tool to manipulate the 
partition table, change the type of partitions ...

Have you checked tucows? (http://mac.tucows.com/) Is Apple's pdisk not 
enough?

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Re:

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

PD> Am 08.03.2005 um 15:48 schrieb Gian Uberto Lauri:

>> (btw does someone know a free utility to repartition the disk to
>> make place to an healy Debian GNU/Linux ?).

PD> When you boot into Debian you're offered to repartition any Mac
PD> volume -- that's presumingly not that what you want? If so you
PD> could try to boot into OpenBSD or NetBSD. I think both have a tool
PD> to manipulate the partition table, change the type of partitions
PD> ...

I badly worded my sentence. What  I need is something to shrink Mac OS
X partition.

PD> Have you checked tucows? (http://mac.tucows.com/) Is Apple's pdisk
PD> not enough?

Goig to check.

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Re:

[Gian Uberto Lauri]

>>>>> "PD" == Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

PD> Am 08.03.2005 um 15:48 schrieb Gian Uberto Lauri:

>> (btw does someone know a free utility to repartition the disk to
>> make place to an healy Debian GNU/Linux ?).

PD> When you boot into Debian you're offered to repartition any Mac
PD> volume -- that's presumingly not that what you want? If so you
PD> could try to boot into OpenBSD or NetBSD. I think both have a tool
PD> to manipulate the partition table, change the type of partitions
PD> ...

I badly worded my sentence. What  I need is something to shrink Mac OS
X partition.

PD> Have you checked tucows? (http://mac.tucows.com/) Is Apple's pdisk
PD> not enough?

It seems that they don't have what I need. (BTW, it was free as in freedom :))

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Re: Re: (Mac partition manager)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 08.03.2005 um 22:14 schrieb Gian Uberto Lauri:

> What  I need is something to shrink Mac OS X partition.

The most easy way: backup, re-install/re-partition, re-store.

The more complicated way would involve compacting the many used blocks 
on disk into one object (defragmentation). I think you'll need Norton 
for this. Then you could have a problem with you Mac (an iBook, as I 
remember): you might need to have an Apple_Boot_Partition in first 8 
GB, and maybe Linux too! Some disk controllers make it impossible to 
boot from blocks behind the 8 GB border.

And I vaguely remember that I read about a Mac partition manager, maybe 
coming from Australia or New Zealand, that can shrink! I think it was 
VolumeWorks from SubRosaSoft. Isn't there a Drive Genius too?

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