Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not trying to change any existing volumes. Nor am I concerned > with allocation block sizes. What I'm trying to do is safely create > an HFS+volume in a partition I set aside as "Free" when I formatted > the disk with Silverlining Pro 6.4. By "safely", I mean with a low > risk of losing information on existing HFS+ volumes. > > Actually, I set aside the first two 8,000 MB partitions as > "Free". So I could, with the right software, probably create a new > volume up to slightly over 16,000 MB. But, IIRC, a bootable OS X > partition on an upgraded pre-G3 Mac has to be fully within the first > 8 GB (i.e., 8,192 MB) of disk space, which is why I made the initial > partition only 8,000 MB.
I missed the beginning of the thread, so I might not understand. Do you have MacOS X? If you do, you probably have a program called /sbin/newfs_hfs (well, at least it came with GNU/Darwin) that should be able to format a partition HFS+. If you don't have it, you should be able to download it. You'll need to know the partition number, which you can find out using pdisk /dev/disk0 -dump (assuming it's the first disk, use disk1 if it's the second). If it is, say, the fifth partition on the first disk, the command will be newfs_hfs -w -v Untitled /dev/disk0s5 -- Dana [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
