Creative Relief

Well after a lot and not enough thought, I decided to remove XP from my eeePC. Now as it stands, my Hard Drive is divided thusly... around 10G for XP, then 20G for OSX, 80G for 7, and the rest is an extended partition with a 8G Logical mounted at /, a 20G Logical mounted at /home and a 2G Swap Partition. In that order on the drive.

So in order to do this, I am removing the first Partition, and bumping everything towards the from, expanding as I go along. So after much consideration, I popped in my trusted Gparted Live disc (0.4.4.1) and went to work. I deleted the XP Partition, Move the OSX to the front, tried to resized it but later found out it is not possible while Journaling is enabled. So I left the 8G partition alone (RAW) and resized the 80G 7 partition to 70G, and expanded the Extented Partition 10G, Moved everything to the front, enlarging the /Home partition 10G. After not thinking, I hit the Apply button and and hour and a half later, it finished with 3 warnings. But warnings are for suckers and upon reboot, my grub menu popped up. No way, this is to good to be true. OSX booted fine, Ubuntu booted fine, but 7 did not. So, having been this route before, I eeked out a plan. First I booted into Ubuntu and edited my grub menu.lst. It used to say hda 0,0 but since I want to boot off of the 7 partition instead of the XP I changed that to 0,2 (OSX being 0 and 1 being that blank partition).... upon reading what i just wrote, I'll probably have to change it from 2 to 1 after I merge the OSX partition with the blank one, but let's not get ahead of oourselves. So I did that, popped in the 7 disc, booted up, went to Repair Windows. It asked to do some automatice repairs, I let it. It reboots. I boot off of the disc again, click Repair Windows, Select Startup Repair, let it do its thing and BAM, reboots, I let grub come up, and select Windows 7... And it works. EVERYTHING ACTUALLY WORKS. Even better, since XP is gone, I don't see another boot loader. Everything is going according to plan.

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One caveat I'm noticing about multi-booting my eeePC is that Windows 7 will work fine no matter what, but if I boot into 7 and then restart and boot into Ubuntu, I lose sound, the only remedy is shutting down and starting up again. If I boot into 7 and then restart into OSX I lose mouse/trackpad functionality again only remedied with a shutdown and startup. Weird but since that's the only thins I can see that is causing it, I'm good.
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Now let's see If I can screw up resizing the OSX partition...

So I boot into OSX and open up the Disk Utility and, following instructions I found on the web, I click the OSX partition and then click the File menu and look for Disbale Journaling. Greyed out. So still following the web advice, I open a terminal and do the following:

cd /Volumes/
ls

it spits out this:
Apple OS X Leopard Windows 7

so I counter witha diskutil uppercut:
sudo diskutil enableJournal Apple\ OS\ X\ Leopard/
(yes you need all those "\" when you have spaces in the name of your hard drive)

it replies saying, it's already enabled , dawg.
I'm just following instructions. I respond with
sudo diskutil disableJournal Apple\ OS\ X\ Leopard/

and it's disabled. I pop in my trustyl Gparted Live disc and reboot... and apparantly It can't resize HSF+ partitions. After some careful reading, it seem I need to boot up off of my mac osx disc. I'll try that later.

Late

**** UPDATE ****

I guess you can't grow HSF+ Partitions, only shrink or delete. Lame. or is it? First person to show me how to do it, well, I'll make you famous... semi-famous anyhow.

Late