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Format a NTFS hard drive in 10.3
Authored by: LC on Apr 22, '05 01:53:09PM

Right ... the area within a particular partition (slice) may contain a filesystem, or may not. Also, there may be a logical volume in that partition, or not. In Mac OS, Disk Utility is employed to create HFS or HFS+ volumes, so there you have the "filesystem" (the "FS" in HFS).

In another case, in Unix when we use a disk device simply for paging (i.e. a "swap device"), since it's the entire disk then you don't need any partition map or label. But under LVM, we need to "initialize" (partition etc.) each disk device.



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