Formatting linux partition

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 4:14 PM -0400 5/8/02, Eric D. wrote:
>Hello ya'll, is there any way to get a formerly linux partition reformatted
>as HFS?

Yes.

Using pdisk, delete that partition.  Then create it again, using the 
same base and length.  When you recreate it, use the uppercase C 
"create partition" command instead of the normal lowercase c.  The 
uppercase option lets you specify the partition type (lowercase c 
will always create partitions as "Apple_UNIX_SVR2", which is what you 
want for Linux partitions).  Enter "Apple_HFS" (without the quotes) 
as the type, and anything you like for the name.

At this point it's really still a Linux partition, it's just now 
marked as HFS.  But that's OK.  Just boot MacOS.  MacOS will try to 
mount the partition because its type signature in the partition table 
is Apple_HFS, discover that the HFS magic numbers aren't present at 
the beginning of the partition, and then ask you if you want to 
format or eject the unreadable disk.  Tell it to format, select HFS 
or HFS+ as you like, and you should be good to go.

-- 
Tim Seufert