[darcs-users] Huge mess moving to mac

[Denis Bueno]

On 4/15/07, Yitzchak Gale <gale at sefer.org> wrote:
> Oops - not Disk Utility. The diskutil command.
>
> The resizeVolume verb is not mentioned in the
> man page, but if you type "diskutil resizeVolume"
> you get a lot of usage information.

It seems you've done your research, but I wanted to utter one word of caution:

  Using a case-sensitive partition as your main partition can cause
problems (e.g. packages not installing, other weird stuff) down the
road.

On my Powerbook G4, I once tried using "Unix File System" as my main
OS X partition, since I wanted to avoid problems such as you describe.
The same as my install, certain packages (third-party apps) that I
used failed to install, with cryptic errors. I can only assume it was
due to the case-sensitivity, because it never happened with the
case-insensitive file system. Bad stuff.

I think the easiest solution (and the one which I personally use for
exactly this problem) is to create project-specific disk images with a
case-sensitive file system. This is easily done with Disk Utility. You
just have to make sure you leave enough reasonable space on there, or
have enough diskutil-fu to be able to resize the image, if necessary.

It's a pretty painless solution overall, and will not cause weird
problems to pop up in your OS X installation down the road.

-Denis