a little help w/firewire drive please

[Zugwrack]

mke2fs -j /dev/<firewire drive> sda or possibly sd0 this will create a
ext3 linux filesystem




On Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:31:51 -0500, newsman@verizon.net
<newsman@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > From: Clinton MacDonald <clint.macdonald@sbcglobal.net>
> > Date: 2004/08/02 Mon PM 02:54:40 CDT
> > To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> > Subject: Re: a little help w/firewire drive please
> >
> > Mr. Newsman:
> 
> Actually it's Dr. Newsman, but that's another topic.
> >
> > newsman@verizon.net wrote:
> > > I'd like to have two partitions on the external drive: 1 for
> > > OS X and the other for Linux. First question---does it make
> > > good sense to make both partitions bootable? I already used
> > > Disk Utility in OS X to set up the OS X partition (HFS+). I
> > > placed the "free space" partition first and the OS X
> > > partition second per the instructions in the YDL installation
> > > guide.
> >
> > This sounds like a lot of work. What, exactly, are you trying to
> > accomplish? Both Mac OS X and Yellow Dog Linux will recognize HFS, HFS+
> > (if you are running the correct kernel), and DOS/FAT formatted drives.
> > You might be better off to format the drive in one of those so that you
> > can access it from both YDL and OS X.
> >
> > Unless I have misunderstood what you are trying to do.
> 
> Basically, I want to use the firewire drive as a backup/storage unit. When
> you install YDL, you first format the OS X partition using OS X disk utility,
> leaving the other partition as "free space" for YDL. You then do the YDL
> install and set up the remaining partition(s) for Linux. That's what I
> thought I should do in this case.
> 
> Since I'm only using the firewire drive for storage, it would seem that I do
> not have to worry about making either one or both of the partitions bootable.
> So, again, what specific partitioning tool should I use in YDL to partition
> that part of the firewire drive that is currently sitting there as "free
> space" without wiping out the HFS+ partition that is already there?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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