Resizing iPod 5G with "diskutil resizeVolume"
I was just wondering if it was possible to resize mt 5th gen iPod using "diskutil resizeVolume" so that i could have a windows partition that i can use for my stuff at school. at the moment, i can't use it at all on windows, so it would be awesome to have say a 1GB partition for all my stuff.
thanks for any help.
Cya, Al.
Why resize it? well that way I can keep my stuff separate from my school/windoze stuff and not risk windoze reformatting my stuff. it is set for disk mode, but windows can't read HFS+ disks. I would install macdisk, but these are school computers so I can't, unless someone can come up with a portable version. I would reformat it with a windoze machine, but A) I don't really have access to one and B) I like my iPod linux and as far as I know, I wouldn't be able to reinstall it from a mac after the drive's been formatted to FAT32 or something.
This is why I wanted to use diskutil resizeVolume because I can have the best of both worlds. (even though one of thoser worlds bests are vetter than the other:P)
Cya, Al.
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