where is pdisk? or is this what I need?

[wmkruse]

I recently created a small HFS partition so I could exchange files
between OSX and YDL.  It works mostly, but I found that some files that
I have tried transfering were unable to be opened by GIMP in YDL.

Is it possible to mount OSX UFS partitions in YDL?  UFS is not
compatible with OS9, from what I understand.

Tony

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 17:57, Eric D. wrote:
> on 19/5/02 10:56, Paul Cezanne at oblique@alum.mit.edu wrote:
> 
> >> pdisk ought to do it.  Since you're trying to delete the Linux partition, you
> >> probably want to run pdisk from MacOS.  See
> >> http://www.cfcl.com/eryk/linux/pdisk/.
> > 
> > Is there another place to download it from?  This web site works (and appears
> > to be the "official" site for pdisk), but the ftp link on this page is broken.
> 
> Since you're also running OS X you already have pdisk. Just run pdisk as
> "sudo pdisk" & you'll be able to nix the Linux partition & then allow OS X
> (or 9) to reformat it as HFS or HFS+. Specific instructions and URLs can be
> found (a week, perhaps two, ago) here in this forum's recent archives. If
> you need them, ask (though, since you're an old-time Unixer I doubt that's
> the case ;).
> 
> (I'd recommend HFS+... I'm finding that OSX isn't fond of HFS partitions (as
> soon as I back up the data stored on my HFS disk it's being wiped to HFS+).
> Photoslop 7 for OS X doesn't want to save files to an HFS partition & I
> noticed that a few other apps displayed the same disdain for HFS. Unless you
> have an explicit need for HFS (e.g. transferring files from Mac to YDL &
> back) I would chose HFS+).
> 
> Eric.
> 
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