Use fdisk to create HFS partition?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 11:16 AM, Marc Stergionis wrote:

> 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.

Disk Util might or might not (never tried to do this with disk util), 
Drive setup does not as I've done this before.  typically, you want to 
create partitions for an OS using the OS'es native partition tool.

-n
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