On Wednesday, November 6, 2002, at 04:52 PM, Philip Derrin wrote:
Ah that last statement answered another question I was wondering about too. I had set the partition to DOS and mac-fdisk didnt complain but macOSX would not recognise it without a filesystem. Booting into Linux I tried mkfs -t msdos in linux but I dont have the mkfs.msdos executable that mkfs calls up. (searching packages with apt-cache search didnt tell me what provided mkfs.msdos).iirc, it's Windows_FAT_32 It's not documented as far as I know, but it works for me. You'll have to format the partition afterwards. The command to do this is included in MacOSX as newfs_msdos.
I have just looked and I have newfs_msdos on MacOSX. Thanks.
As an aside I can copy stuff from MacOSX partitions using the hfplus utilities for Linux. That lets me copy FROM Mac using hpcopy but there does not seem to be a utility to copy/write to MacOSX partitions. The man pages for hfplus say its utils can copy TO and FROM but the man page for hpcopy says only that it can copy from. It does not mention writing to Mac partitions. I have tried hpcopy and it seems that one cant write to Mac OSX paritions - only copy from them.
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 03:40:31PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:Hi All,
I am currently partitioning my Ti Powerbook for Debian 3.0
Using mac-fdisk I can use the C command to add a new partition of
whatever type I want to. Apparently the lowercase c command adds a Linux
partition type. I wish to add a small dos partition as Linux needs to
transfer data with MacOSX on the same disk. The man page for mac-fdisk
does not tell me what the name is that I should give to get a dos
partition. I have tried dos and DOS but when I print the partition table
it says 'unknown' for the type.
Michael Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
