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by: Ant - Wed, 1 Dec 2021 07:48 UTC

Hello.

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app?

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by: Bernd Froehlich - Wed, 1 Dec 2021 08:10 UTC

On 1. Dec 2021 at 08:48:53 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3
> Seagate 6 TB
> HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward
> compatible with older
> Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Montereys Disk Utility can format HFS+, so I guess Big Sur can as well.

Did you select "show all devices" from the little menu in the top left
corner?
I guess it says "ony volumes" for you.

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by: Ant - Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:51 UTC

Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> wrote:
> On 1. Dec 2021 at 08:48:53 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

> > Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3
> > Seagate 6 TB
> > HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward
> > compatible with older
> > Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

> Montereys Disk Utility can format HFS+, so I guess Big Sur can as well.

> Did you select "show all devices" from the little menu in the top left
> corner?
> I guess it says "ony volumes" for you.

I'll check again later. I wanted to reformat an old HFS+ partition, but
it only gave me APFS options.
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by: Lewis - Wed, 1 Dec 2021 16:12 UTC

In message <cOOdnYDi0e54tTr8nZ2dnUU7-fvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an
> ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB HDD's partition as old HFS+?

No.

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by: Bernd Froehlich - Thu, 2 Dec 2021 07:37 UTC

On 1. Dec 2021 at 12:51:18 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

> I'll check again later. I wanted to reformat an old HFS+ partition, but
> it only gave me APFS options.

Not sure if you can reformat a single partition to HFS+.
You might have to reformat the whole drive.

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by: Ant - Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:18 UTC

In comp.sys.mac.apps Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:
> Hello.

> Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
> HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
> Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

OK, I figured it out. I have to format the disk container to do it.
That was confusing.
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Subject	Author
Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk U	Ant
Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Di	Bernd Froehlich
Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Di	Ant
Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Di	Bernd Froehlich
Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur	Lewis
Re: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Di	Ant