On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Sharon wrote: S> As far as I know, you can't format that partition in OSX. What you do S> is use the OSX Disk Utility to create the partition as "Free Space" S> (remember to uncheck the 'install OS9 disk drivers' box), then let S> Mandrake do the format. S> S> OSX will not see the data on the linux partition, no matter where the S> format is done from. The linux partition will show up as a volume in S> Disk Utility, but the type will be 'unknown' and you will not be able S> to mount it on the desktop. The same is basically true for the other S> way around: there are ways to see OSX partitions in linux, but you S> need some supplied utilities and the operation is read-only. S> S> If you want to erase the linux partitions from OSX, just use Disk S> Utility.
You can mount UFS volumes from Linux. -- http://www.edlund.org/
