Anyone use gpt?

[Donkergroen bvba]

what does "diskutil list" show you ?
On 07 Oct 2007, at 18:29, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a largish firewire disk that I use for backing up various
> drives in two of my mac osx computers.
>
> I have about 120GB of free space left on the firewire drive and
> I would like to setup about half of the free space for general
> (upbacked up ) storage...
>
> Disk utility seems to want to re-init the entire drive if I try
> to add a partition.
>
> I apropos'ed partition and found the program "gpt".
>
> The man page asserts that one can use gpt to "add" a partition.
>
> The command gpt show displays:
>
> [mbp:~]$ gpt show disk2
>       start       size  index  contents
>           0          1         PMBR
>           1          1         Pri GPT header
>           2         32         Pri GPT table
>          34          6
>          40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2- 
> BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
>      409640  243669008      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA- 
> AA11-00306543ECAC
>   244078648     262144
>   244340792  124326424      3  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA- 
> AA11-00306543ECAC
>   368667216     262144
>   368929360  359339512      4  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA- 
> AA11-00306543ECAC
>   728268872  248504263
>   976773135         32         Sec GPT table
>   976773167          1         Sec GPT header
>
> Tain't clear what the two 262144 sized unlabeled areas are, I am  
> guessing maybe
> the journal file. (But get info says that all three of the  
> partitions( index 2,3,4)
> are journaled...
>
> Has anyone actually used this program to "add" a new partition?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jerry
>
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