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Create an HFS+/NTFS/FAT32 external drive
Authored by: scottsymes on Oct 31, '08 05:29:06AM

I was having issues with newfs not wanting to create HFS+ on most of the partitions I was making. "Partition size not a multiple of 4k" was the error. being lazy and not wanting to do any maths when the computer seemed more than capable (and why didn't it just dock a couple of k off the end of the partition?), I hunted around until I got the right command:

diskutil partitionDisk disk1 2 MBRFormat "MS-DOS FAT32" FATVOL 21% HFS+ HFS 79%

I tried 20% and 80% first, but again with the size error. struck it lucky on the second attempt at my preferred ratio.

This is using OSX 10.5.5 and trying to partition an external 1TB drive



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