Subject: Re: filesystem stuff on an 8600
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Fri Oct 26 2001 - 20:17:19 MDT
Well,
I am not sure you can format the partition as hfs, but using pdisk you
can format the partition as ext2. From there you may be able to use
hfs-utils to re-format the partition.
--- Sean
On Fri, 26 Oct 2001, pete wrote:
> Because it's formatted with Apple's driver; there is no way to add a
> partition to a disk without reformatting the disk.
>
> If there was a mountable partition on there, I could choose "erase disk"
> from the "special" menu to reformat...but there's not, so I can't :) Also,
> if I'd been smart and formatted the disk originally with HDT or
> silverlining, I'd be ok...but I wasn't, so I'm screwed.
>
> Of course, my info may be out of date, so I'll try booting from my
> Silverlining CD and from a recent MacOS CD with Drive Setup when I get home
> just to be sure.
>
> Even if I can solve this specific problem from the MacOS side, I'd like to
> figure out how to use utilities like fdisk, pdisk, and mkfs without running
> into the problems I described below. So, any suggestions are still quite
> welcome!
>
> - pete -
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