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Lumpiia

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Registered: 2010-12-16

Posts: 3

How does one use "parted"? (Macbook 2, 1 Partitioning) OSX Dual Boot

So I'm sitting here using the Macbook Guide off the wiki to dual boot OSX and Arch together and I cant figure out how to use "parted".

At the step that says:
"Delete the empty space partition and partition the space as you would for any other installation. Note that MBR is limited to 4 primary partitions (including the efi partition). That leaves 2 primary partitions for arch. One strategy is to have a system and home partition, and use a swap file (I haven't tried to use logical partitions). Another is to dedicate one partition to a shared partition (see below)."

So in OSX I used Disk Utility to create a "FAT32" partition out of my free space for Arch and my table in parted looks like this:

Number     Start      End      Size     File System     Name                             Flags
1          20.5kB    210MB    210MB     fat32           EFI System Partition             boot
2          210MB     63.8GB   63.5GB    hfs+            Customer
3          63.9GB    80.0GB   16.1GB    fat32           Untitled

What do I do now? I'm really confused as to how I am supposed go about this. If I can only use 2 primary partitions.

stlarch

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From: hell

Registered: 2010-12-25

Posts: 1,265

Re: How does one use "parted"? (Macbook 2, 1 Partitioning) OSX Dual Boot

You shouldn't cross post.

Lumpiia

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Registered: 2010-12-16

Posts: 3

Re: How does one use "parted"? (Macbook 2, 1 Partitioning) OSX Dual Boot

Ah, very sorry about that. I was confused at to where this would be fit to go.