Re: partition 7


Subject: Re: partition 7
From: Ken Tabb (ken@psy.herts.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 10 2000 - 09:52:09 MDT


And thus spake David Peers at 10/5/00 4:10 pm:

>Okay,
>I am trying this again, the archives really don't have much of an answer
>for me. I am running linux on a second internal IDE drive (hdb) Half of
>the drive is formatted for linux and I would like the remaining 1GB of
>space to be visible to both the Mac OS and the linux os. I have tried
>using hfs utils and it confirms that I have formatted the partition as
>HFS and it gives me the size of the volume I have created. However, when
>I fire up Mac OS I can't see the drive. Anyone have experience in this
>area?
>Also I renamed the partition to 'MacDisk' in pdisk and labeled as
>'HFS' by using the C command.

I imagine you've already tried this, but many formatting tools / drivers
support the 'mount at startup' feature. If this isn't checked, the drive
might well be formatted but unless you mount it you won't be seeing it.

If it isn't this, I have absolutely no idea!
Ken

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