Re: Mac fs

Bob,

This may help.

http://www.opensuse.org/PPC_Partitioning

Jim

Fielder George Dowding wrote:

>Hi Tofu45.
>
>I imagine the drive is already formatted for some flavor of vfat. Linux
>will read vfat, so before you do anything, try it on the Mac. If it
>works, try it on your Linux box. Even though I like a robust,
>journaling, free (as in freedom) file system, I have used thumb drives
>with whatever vfat type formatting to transfer files between Windows
>boxen and my Linux boxen.
>
>If you do need to partition the usb drive (not recommended I
>understand), then cfdisk will do the partitioning, but you will need to
>use the formatting utility mkfs (and progeny). There is the badblock
>utility and a bunch of other stuff, so Bob, it looks like you have some
>man page reading to do. fgd.
>
>Tofu45 wrote:
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>>I have a usb drive I want to use to back up my wife's Mac OS 9.xx.
>>Is there a utility to format the disk: something like cfdisk? Prefer to
>>partition part of the disk for her (Mac fs) and part for linux.
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>>That OS seems to read windows floppies ok. What about a vfat type partition?
>>If so, which of the cfdisk fs types work best as vfat. There is a bewildering
>>array of FATs in there.
>>
>>Google didn't clarify it for me.
>>What experience out there?
>>
>> Bob Pelz
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Received on Sun Nov 20 09:45:29 2005