hformat doesn't work anymore...

Subject: hformat doesn't work anymore...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sat Mar 09 2002 - 17:13:10 MST

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Hey all,

I tried to format an HFS partition on a disk with a Yellow Dog partition
set but hformat bombs out with an error:

[john@guanine /]# hformat /dev/sdb 5
hformat: /dev/sdb: partition not found (Invalid argument)

Yet here is the disk I'm trying to format. Looks ok to me except that the
Mac partitions aren't in order:

[john@guanine /]# /sbin/parted /dev/sdb
GNU Parted 1.4.20-pre3

Using /dev/sdb
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-17547.607 megabytes
Disk label type: mac
Minor Start End Filesystem Name Flags
1 0.000 0.031 Apple
6 2.344 12.344 untitled boot
7 12.344 268.344 linux-swap swap swap
8 268.345 13547.606 ext2 Yeller
5 13547.606 17547.606 hfs Macintosh

Any clues?

-- John

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