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- MacBook 1.83 GHz intel c2d, 2gb ram, xp and os x.6
I'm currently running mac os 10.4 (probably won't upgrade to leopard anytime soon) and I would like to try t2, a linux distro, but I'm not sure about partitioning. I read some documentation on using diskutil resizeVolume command, which sounds easy enough, but I don't know how stable it is. Otherwise I'll just have to wipe the whole thing, which I don't want to do because backing up will be a pain, but I can. So my first question: 1) can I trust diskutil for this? 2) what filesytem should I use for my /home partition so that I can access it from both t2 and mac osx or is that not possible? 3) how much free space should I retain on my partition with mac osx to keep it running smoothly. I've got an 80 gb hard drive, using 30 gb at the moment. Also, I'll migrate at least 5 gb of that to /home if I can access the partition from both os's.