Subject: Re: hformat doesn't work anymore...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 20:35:43 MST
According to the documentation, these are two separate fields. And the
raw device name is /dev/sdb.
-- John
Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>> 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)
>
>
> Well, no one's pointed this out yet, but your command as written can't
> possibly work. There can be no space between "sdb" and "5". Is this
> the problem?
>
>
> Stefan Jeglinski
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