[Discuss] fdisk file type HFX+

[pw]

Murray Strome wrote:
> 
> If I want to create a Mac OS X (Journaled) -- I think that is HFX+ -- 
> partition on an external Firewire HardDrive, using fdisk in LINUX. What 
> code would I use? Currently, I have a partition type 27 (something used 
> for the first partition by Toshiba), and two NTFS partitions that I can 
> delete. If I do sudo fdisk -l, this is the information on the disk right 
> now:
> Partition          Type
> Partition 1   ---    27     Toshiba start and maintenance sector from 
> Laptop
> Partition 2   --- Extended (Partitions 5 and 6)
> Partition 3   ---  FAT 32 Partition 4   ---  FAT 32
> Partition 5   ---  NTFS    Clone of Laptop C
> Partition 6   ---  NTFS    Was Clone of Laptop D
> 
> The Mac only recognizes three partitions. I think I could delete the 
> logical partitions 5 and 6 and the extended partition 2 and change them 
> to Mac format if I knew what to pick!
> 
> 

It's probably HFSX/HFS+ Apple/Mac format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HFS_Plus

There are some beta driver/patches here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-hfsplus

You need to add the driver to mount the media read only.

Peter