On Jul 10, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Robert Citek wrote:
> Has anyone successfully created a triple FS disk with NTFS, Ext3  
> (or other linux FS), and HFS+?

I tried again and was successful.  Using Knoppix I created four  
partitions with fdisk on an external FireWire drive (/dev/sda).  They
had partition ids of HPFS/NTFS (7), Linux (83), W95 FAT32 (b), and  
Darwin UFS (a8).  Creating the filesystems:

   mkntfs -f -L ntfs /dev/sda1
   mkfs.ext3 -L ext3 /dev/sda2
   mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n fat32 /dev/sda3

I formated the last partition under OS X as HFS+ using DiskUtility.   
I chose the drive and last partition (/dev/disk1s4), Erase, and Mac  
OS (journaled).  This time DiskUtility didn't mess up the disk.

Linux can r/w ext3 and vfat, read-only ntfs, but cannot read HFS+.
Windows can r/w ntfs and vfat, read-only ext3 (sort of)[1], but  
cannot read HFS+.
OS X can r/w HFS+ and vfat and read-only ntfs and ext3 [1].

[1] http://www.cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?Filesystems

Regards,
- Robert
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