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| From | ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app? |
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.sys.mac.software, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems, comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage |
| References | <cOOdnYDi0e54tTr8nZ2dnUU7-fvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> |
| Message-ID | <u92dndNOH5niADX8nZ2dnUU7-Y2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2021-12-02 04:18 -0600 |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
In comp.sys.mac.apps Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
> Hello.
> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
> HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
> Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
OK, I figured it out. I have to format the disk container to do it.
That was confusing.
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