Re: Modify a Mac external HD for a IIgs?

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Marc Sira <toh@victoria.tc.ca> wrote:

:>Because you don't use PC Exchange to erase/format/partition Mac hard
:>drives. For that you use Apple's "Drive Setup" which comes with each Mac
:>on the system disks or system CD-ROM.

: The poster was using the Mac Finder's "Erase Disk" menu item, which provides
: a choice of the filesystem type to create on a partition or device based on
: the alternate filesystem drivers installed (via PC Exchange and the core OS).
: Drive Setup creates partition tables as well as installing filesystems (the
: latter mostly as a matter of convenience). So no, you don't use it directly
: (except to mount fdisk-partitioned disks) but you need it present at boot time
: to work with ProDOS.

And it comes in handy too if you want to empty a volume with a few thousand
files on it. Plus it's a better way since it'll shrink the desktop file back
down to size when you want an empty volume. 
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