Expanding a 240040

[reiters]

I put a 160 in it a year ago knowing that it would see only 137. My question is, it there a quick and clean way to expand it out now that 7.1 can use lba48? I am hoping to not loose all my recordings (it's full of Good Eats episodes).

[reiters]

I think I answered my own question.

mfsadd

Am I on the right track?

[Jamie]

I think I answered my own question.

mfsadd

Am I on the right track?It all depends on whether your partition table is already full (15 partitions, not including the "Apple_free" partition). Run pdisk -l /dev/hda to see your partition table. If it's full, mfsadd won't work. There is a work around (http://alt.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=124&start=0&rid=0&S=23031146af81572262dd49803fba2c18) but it's quick and dirty, not quick and clean, and is really only safe working on a copy rather than on the original disk you want to preserve.

Usually, an image that's already been upgraded once has a full partition table and can't be upgraded again preserving recordings with standard procedures. There are exceptions (e.g. if you started with a minimal MFS image with only two mfs partitions).

[ljvk61]

Chances are you, are using partitions 1-15. I am not aware of any process that would allow you to expand any further without extracting (using any decryption techniques your system configuration may or may not require) all your recordings first, then reloading from image and reinserting.

[reiters]

I think mfsadd will tell me if it can or can't upgrade again. I ain't takin 4 hours to upgrade from 137 to 160, so if it aint a dropin, then i'll just leave well enough alone. backup would take too long and if i were gonna do it, i would put a 250 or 300 in it.