Re: create HFS partition
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:49:50PM +0100, martin krung wrote:
> hi debian on powerpc user
>
> i installed debian on my beige G3, no problem till now:
>
> i have 2 disk, one untouched, with an Mac0S 9, and the other with debian
> and an HFS partiton on it. i boot with bootX over the MacOS
>
> now my problem: i want to have a 6 GB hfs partition on the second disk.
> the partiton exist allready, the type is Apple_HFS, i created it with
> fdisk, although its not recommeded in the installation manual.
>
I've done that a thousand times, and there's nothing wrong with it -
MacOS has accepted it every time. The only problem is, are the driver
partitions present on that second disk? Did you partition it initially
in Linux, and not MacOS? If so, I'm guessing they aren't there, and
classic MacOS will _not_ see any partitions on that disc without them.
Unfortunately, there aren't any really "good" ways of dealing with that
- you might be able to use a current parted to move the ext2 partition
further down the length of the disk, then you could go into MacOS, run
Drive Setup, Initialize, and customize it to not set up _any_
partitions, then it'll just generate the driver partitions - except
it'll blast the partition table, so you have to write down the geometry
of the ext2 partition (and any others) and use mac-fdisk to remake the
partition from the Debian boot disks. Mind you, this could definitely
lose you the entire contents of that disk - you'd be better off to
backup the disk, boot to MacOS, run Drive Setup, go back into Linux,
repartition the second disk as necessary (leaving the driver partitions
intact), remake the filesystems, and restore the backup. I have used the
former technique, with no lost data, but I can't make any guarantees to
anyone else that it will work for them.
--
Derrik Pates
dpates@dsdk12.net
dpates@voxel.net
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