> Are you sure you mean HFS? The original maximum volume size for Mac OS > Standard (HFS) format, was 2GB. The maximum number of allocation blocks is > 65,536. For a 100GB disk, your allocation block would need to be 1.6MB. > Considering Mac OS X 10.7, today's current Apple operating system, is > optimized for 4K allocation block sizes, the performance and efficiency of a > 1.6MB allocation block would be hideous.
Examining with gparted and Disk Utility, I see an Apple partition label that designates partitions: HFS (not plus) 1 MB boot HFS+ journalled 25.6 GB Machintosh HD ext3 10.6 GB Fedora root swap 1.0 GB I believe that the plain HFS boot partition was created during Fedora install. It's now running MacOS 10.4.11 and Fedora 12, which are both the latest applicable releases. Being a PowerPC, Apple discontinued support beginning with MacOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) in spring 2010. > HFS is dead. I'm not even finding a partition type GUID for it, it was always > intended to be used with the APM partitioning scheme (not MDB or GPT). PowerPC Macintosh hardware will run for some more years. The monetary cost for a used machine (1GB RAM, >1GHz CPU) is nearly zero. A "dead" Apple OS has the benefit of no new bugs. Preventing the install of Fedora on such a box (if creating a plain HFS is required for dual boot) seems to be a harsh penalty. -- -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
