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Old 08-06-2009
Partitioning External Drive
I am about to set up another triple boot drive, but this one is connected to my MacBook with a USB adapter. I want to be sure that I do not overwrite data on my laptop's internal drive. This is the command I used for the internal drive, which was found in an Ubuntu forum, but the sizes were changed to match my drive.

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 45G "JHFS+" 4-Linux 20G "MS-DOS FAT32" 4-Windows 0b

If memory serves, there may have been a typo on the last character. I thought it was supposed to be a 'G', but I am very new to this.

I assume that the disk0s2 needs to be changed, but I do not know how to tell what the external drive is called. I have looked in Disk Utility and the System Profiler, but there seems to be nothing there. UNIX must be the answer.
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BOOT.CONFIG(5)						      BSD File Formats Manual						    BOOT.CONFIG(5)

NAME

     boot.config -- Configuration file for the boot blocks

DESCRIPTION

     The boot.config file contains options for the FreeBSD boot block code.

     When the FreeBSD boot loader runs, it searches the ``a'' slice of the boot partition for a boot.config file (as a result, slices which are
     missing an ``a'' partition require user intervention during the boot process).  If the boot.config file is found, its contents are used as
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