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Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux?

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> I found hfsutils has a hformat command that says it can format an
> existing hfs partition, but no thing I can find tells me how to
> create an hfs partition.

A partition is just a designated set of consecutive disk blocks: an
interval of blocks.  A partition itself has no type.  A partition
may contain a file system, and the organization of that file system
has a type.  This type often is confused as the type of the partition
because the partition descriptor has a "type" field which often records a
hint about the organization of a file system which the partition contains.
A significant class of bugs occurs when the actual organization of
the file system disagrees with the hint given by the "type" field
of the partition descriptor.

To create an hfs file system:  "mkfs -t hfs" which invokes mkfs.hfs.

Long answer:
http://gparted.org/features.php  claims that gparted can do everything
except grow, check, and label hfs/hfs+.  Use a recent Linux: 2010 or newer.
On a Mac, do not use fdisk [DOS partition table] except for removable
volumes that contain FAT32 file systems for cross-machine transport
(USB flash memory, etc.)  MacOS prefers (and for boot volumes, demands)
the GPT partition table which parted or gparted can create and understand
(and which fdisk cannot.)

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hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-04-19 03:11 +0000
  Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2011-04-20 03:10 +0000
    Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-04-21 06:03 +0000
      Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2011-04-21 08:13 +0000
        Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-04-21 14:43 +0000
          Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2011-04-22 06:28 +0000
            Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2011-04-23 00:19 +0000
              Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? Gregory Shearman <ZekeGregory@netscape.net> - 2011-04-23 12:17 +0000
  Re: hfs / hfs+ partitions under linux? John Reiser <jreiserfl@comcast.net> - 2011-04-19 20:41 -0700

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