how to format my external drive?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Ms. Frost:

On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 10:19  AM, Edith Frost wrote:
> To follow up on this, I ended up going with ext2. I made a single 
> partition using fdisk and created the filesystem using the 'parted' 
> tool. I don't know why, but that was the only thing that worked 
> without getting stuck or giving me errors afterward ("no magic number" 
> or some such). I tried FAT32 first, but never could get that mounted 
> in OSX, so I gave up on that idea. I'm just happy I have a working 
> drive that doesn't screw up my filenames.

Thanks for the report. I haven't yet played with disk formatting in 
YDL, but I think I will have to someday soon.

> Next thing to try is what Clint suggested:
>
>> [...] you can play with the beta extension for Mac OS X that allows 
>> mounting of the ext2 (Linux) filesystem:
>>
>> <https://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/>

I am especially interested with your experiences with this. Let us know 
how well the ext2 drivers work for you in Mac OS X.

> Will do.  Thanks for your help Clint!!

Shucks!

Best wishes,
Clint

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