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240GB Ipod HDD and Bootable Linux Partition?

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gevaerts:
Use fdisk. Tools like gparted are designed to "help" people, and may therefore be bad for unusual situations.

torne:

--- Quote from: darkenvy on October 27, 2010, 02:50:51 PM ---Okay so im having a lot of problems partitioning the HDD. I am using gparted and have found that ~80mb hidden partition at the beginning of the drive. It appeared as unpartitioned space. I did not touch this and I resized the ipod partition from the end to allot 20Gigs. Upon finishing I have found that my ipod is not bootable (gives me a connect to itunes message) but when connected to Linux I can mount all my partitions. I cannot mount any partitions in windows or mac.

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Since it knows the first partition is "unpartitioned space" it probably feels justified in zeroing the start sector and size of that partition entry, or perhaps renumbering the existing partitions to be in different slots. Either of these things will break it :)

Use fdisk to do it manually, as gevaerts said.

darkenvy:
hmmm console partitioner, how fun :P

I'll let you know how this goes.

UPDATE: I decided not to proceed. The risk of bricking my firmware was the cause. The linux would be a bonus and I can jsut buy a portable HDD if I really want it. I traded a 6th gen iPod classic for the 5th gen ipod (with my friend) after some bad e-bay experiences. I hate the 6th gen, scrollwheel sucks and the redesign is poor. also doesn't support rockbox :P

Thanks for your help anyways

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