Use fdisk to create HFS partition?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 10:50 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote:

> I have a 27G partition (on an 80G drive) that I'd like to divide up for 
> a YDL install. The other two partitions on the device have OS 10.2.1 
> and OS 9.2.2.
>
> I know I  can use fdisk to delete and create partitions with types for 
> a YDL install. I want to  make a root partition of about 10G and leave 
> the rest for another Mac OS (HFS) volume.
>
> What partition type do I have to input for the  HFS partition? I don't 
> want fdisk to delete it and create only free space, because AFAIK, Mac 
> OS can't see/recover that.

Use Drive Setup or DiskUtility to create your extra HFS partitions and 
leave what you want fro linux listed as Free Space, then use fdisk to 
chop up the free space for linux.

-n
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