On Mon, Apr 09, Serge Paulus wrote:

Hi

Is there a quick way to reformat an ext2 partition to hfs to give access to MacOS? To make it more difficult ;-) the partition contains Suse 7 and is located on hda9 (last partition). The MacOS 9.1 startupvolume is on the same disk. I want to get access from MacOS without reformatting the complete hd with "Laufwerke konfigurieren". I already tried with pdisk, but neither MacOS nor Linux seems to be impressed of the canges I made. I deleted hda9, so theoretically, Linux should be gone, but it still starts without problems...

Look at the pdisk -l /dev/hda output. You see the partition types like "Apple_HFS", "Apple_UNIX_SRV" etc. MacOS can/want only access Apple_HFS. It you remove the hda9 partition the data dont go away, only the partition entry is changed from Apple_UNIX_SRV2 to Apple_Extra or Apple_Free but it is still hda9 and therefore accessible. If you want to get rid of hda9, create a "Apple_HFS" partition type. MacOS will try to mount it, it finds an unknown format and offer you a dialog box to put HFS or HFS+ on it. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...