On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
On 20/02/2009, at 2:51 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
Rolf;
I think you should check whether reformatting is really necessary.
My understanding is that Disk Utility will allow repartitioning and
one can choose a disk format at the time that a new partition is
created.
Not clear to me what you're saying here. Are you suggesting that I
(could) partition my
hard drive into a chunk containing the current file system and a new
chunk (with
nothing --- yet --- written on it)? And that I could choose a disk
format for
the new chunk such that the file system would be case-sensitive there?
Yes you could. Whether you want to do so may be the proper question,
but it should not be for concern about safety.
But then I'd get case sensitivity only when working with files
stored in the new
chunk, is it not so?
Sounds dangerous to me, anyhow!
Those of us with dual boot systems (which are quite common these days)
have multiple filesystems and the Mac OS handles them smoothly behind
the scenes. My second drive has a 32 GB FAT32 partition where WinXP
sits and a much larger partition where my Time Machine backups reside.
The Mac sees both, but Windows can only access the FAT32 partition
since it is unable to read the MacOS Extended (Journaled) partition.
--
David Winsemius
I don't have much of an understanding of file systems and
partitioning, I'm afraid.
cheers,
Rolf
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