Use fdisk to create HFS partition?

[Marc Stergionis]

Sometime around, no, let's make it exactly at 11:06 AM -0500 on 
11/5/02, nathan r. hruby transmitted this wisdom:
>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.

I was hoping to not have to repartition the entire drive (ie. I don't 
want to touch the other two HFS partitions). Don't Drive Setup and 
Disk Utility both destroy all data on the entire device?

I know that pdisk/fdisk can delete and create some partitions without 
touching/destroying others.

-ms
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