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Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app?

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
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Date 2021-12-02 04:18 -0600

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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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Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2021-12-02 04:18 -0600

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