ufs to macOS

Russell Brunet yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sun Sep 8 14:02:01 2002


Yeah, now that I think about it, that's how I wiped my UFS partition when I
did it. This is the way to go.

Russell


On 9/8/02 12:29 PM, "Angela Kahealani" <angela@kahealani.com> wrote:

> Both the OS9 and OSuX "Drive Setup / Disk Utility", in my experience
> (pre-OSuX 10.2) when asked to make ANY change on ANY partition, will
> change EVERY partition = no data remains on ANY partition of a disk.
> However, in the installer process of OS X, one of the screens offers
> the option to "Erase" a partition and install OS X onto it...
> and this
> only touches the one partition. "Erase" done from the Finder of
> a running
> Mac OS {9,X} only zaps the selected partition. Either way, in
> the ERASE
> dialogue, you get to pick the new format, under 9, HFS or HFS+,
> under X,
> HFS+ or UFS. AVOID using "Drive Setup / Disk Utility", use "ERASE".