On September 25, 2005 02:15 pm, Adam Thompson wrote this amazing epistle:

Mike Pfaiffer wrote:

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I looked at the site Gilles suggested earlier. I was in a bit of a rush (as I am from time to time). They want people to sign up as developers before downloading source code. That's not for me. As a result I found an alternative which was last updated around 2003. It's at http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/hfs/ and the package is called hfstools. It compiles and installs really fast. Unfortunately, although I gave it a 100GB partition, it only formatted two GB of it. Apart from that... No complaints. I'll keep hunting for a while. Eventually I might get a Mac (owned by one of my friends) to format the partition for me.

Later Mike

P.S. The Linux and M$ partitions work fine...

I believe you will find that standard HFS only supports up to 2Gb.

I didn't know this for certain. It was one of the possibilities. It certainly explains what I saw.

HFS+ supports larger partitions, and I don't think hfstools will format an HFS+ partition.

Quite right about hfs tools not doing HFS+.

-Adam

Thanks for the info. The search goes on. The deadline for the articles is Wednesday so the search is going to be slow until then. Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Call-A.P.P.L.E. and the Digital Civilization http://www.callapple.org | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------