Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-25 Thread Joel Rees
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 2:40 PM, solitone wrote: > On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: >> Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? > > I'm using grub to boot debian. > > To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to start up to Apple's > Startup Manager, rather than g

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-25 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 25/07/2017 à 07:13, solitone a écrit : I can't remember: is gparted available in debian's installation media? Gparted is not available in the Debian installer. Only fdisk and parted are. The Debian installer partitioning tool, partman, is based on libparted too. It allows to resize a part

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 25 July 2017 14:25:59 CEST Joel Rees wrote: > Can you boot without the Mac OS partition? I'm using grub to boot debian. To boot MacOS, I need to press the option key (⌥) to start up to Apple's Startup Manager, rather than grub. Startup Manager allows me to choose the MacOS partitio

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 11:13 PM, solitone wrote: > I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 > GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware > update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. Can you boot withou

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread solitone
On Monday, 24 July 2017 21:01:37 CEST Pascal Hambourg wrote: > AFAIK, parted (the command line program) cannot move the start of a > partition and its contents. Only gparted (the GUI program) can. Yes, Pascal, you're right: > Note that after version 2.4, the following commands were removed: > chec

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Felix Miata
solitone composed on 2017-07-24 16:13 (UTC+0200): > I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 > GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware > update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. > The issue is th

Re: From dual- to single-boot

2017-07-24 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 24/07/2017 à 16:13, solitone a écrit : I never use MacOs, so I want to just keep debian, so at least I'll put its 22 GB space to better use. I used to keep it just for some sporadic firmware update, but frankly I don't think I'll need this again in the future. ~$ sudo /sbin/parted /dev/sda pr