Subject: Re: hformat doesn't work anymore...
From: John Nelson (john@computation.com)
Date: Sun Mar 10 2002 - 20:42:42 MST
Interesting.... I tried this:
# hformat /dev/sdb2
and it seems to have formatted the partition. Other hfstuils have no
problem dealing with the partition but the acid test will be if Mac OS can
mount the partition.
Thanks for the suggestion... rolling forward again.
-- John
John Nelson wrote:
>
> 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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