Re: Shrinking HFS+ causes fatal out of memory

[K.G.]

Hi and thanks for your bug report,

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:01:05 +0800 Nick Bower <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks.  Unfortunately this is not so easy however - G5's don't have a 
> floppy drive (great huh).  Although I'll give it a shot trying to create 
> a boot cd or something.

I think there are some gentoo live cd for PPC with gcc.
If you succeed in building Parted yourself, I would like
you do it with the --enable-hfs-extract-fs
./configure option of the current SVN snapshot, and then
you will be able to extract the low level structures of
HFS+ (and HFS wrapper if any) with the "check" command of
parted. It will create "vh.hfsplus", "catalog.hfsplus",
"extents.hfsplus", "bitmap.hfsplus", "attributes.hfsplus",
"startup.hfsplus" (and maybe "mdb.hfs", "catalog.hfs",
"extents.hfs", "bitmap.hfs" if there is an HFS Wrapper)
in the current directory, and then you can send me those
files for analysis. They will contain some informations
like file names, date of creation, ..., so if you don't
want me to be able to read these informations don't do
it.

Little questions: what is the (maybe estimated) number
of files on the HFS+ volume? and how much RAM do you
have?

> Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > Nick Bower <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>I can't get any more info than this right now (like version - although
> >>as it's FC4 it's probably 1.6.22) because it's busy attempting it again
> >>with 130000 instead.
> > 
> > 
> > Could you please verify our 1.6.24 or SVN snapshot? Those should have
> > fixed this problem since on 1.6.24 there's a lot of fixes related to
> > hfs+
> >