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Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
Trying to create 3 partitions, I hit a small snag (probably user error)... at first I performed and received the following message:
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
Hi,
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
Well, it wouldn't help you now anyway (since you got it working already), but I think your mistake was that you typed
instead of Small and subtle difference that was pointed out in the original post...
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
Bravo!...worked seamlessly on OSX 10.4 and Windows XP and I have never touched UNIX before. Only addition to above line of code was 'MBRFormat' as noted in original posting. Both booted up without effort on Mac & Win.
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
Not working for me. I followed silentaccord's instructions, and everything stops at step 5: "5) Now use fdisk to create the master boot record (MBR) so Windows will recognize the FAT32 partition:
Create HFS+ and FAT32 partitions on one external drive - use diskutil
I worked past my fdisk error: turns out I must specify the disk name differently. Although 'disk4' is what Disk Utility identifies as this disk, I had to use 'fdisk -e /dev/rdisk4' .... |
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