repartitioning a HFS+ partition on a Hackintosh

[QueBert]

When I installed Snow Leopard I wasn't sure if I was going to use it enough to justify giving it a huge amount of HD space. Well, it's turned into my main OS now and while I'm not out of space yet, I know I'll be wanting more soon. The Partition is GUID, I have 300 gigs of un-partitioned space, but I cannot resize my main SL partition. The HD looks like this in Disk Util



Extra (NFTS partition)
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blank space
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Snow Leopard



I just put another HD in and set it up as my Time Machine, the blank space use to be my Time Machine partition, which I just killed. I know I could boot to my SL disc and kill the SL partition, re-partition the free space and restore my Time Machine backup. Seems pretty time consuming, but will be what I do if anyone here doesn't have a suggestion how I can accomplish this quicker/easier. I tried booting to Win 7 and running Acronis but it craps out when it sees the HFS+ partitions and won't let me do anything to them. Ideally I'd like to find either a way to do this with what comes with SL, or a freeware solution.

suggestions?

 

[Muadib]

I think Gparted can do it.

 

[TheStu]

Well, Disk Utility won't let you repartition forward, so you could try cloning the current Snow Leopard partition onto the existing middle partition. I know that additional steps are required for cloning hacks, but I fear I have no specifics.

Once the clone is complete, you can then just wipe the old partition and drag the new one to consume the space.

 

[alfa147x]

I think I was able to resize my partition when I used disk utility from the 10.6 boot disk