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Formatting Free Space on External Hard Drive

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raffir

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Sep 23, 2005
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A while ago I bought an external hard drive. At the time, I formatted half of it in UFS using Disk Utility, leaving the rest as empty space. Now, as far as I can tell, I can't format the rest to create a new partition without erasing the already extant volume!

Is there any way to format the free space while leaving the rest untouched, maybe using FDISK or a LiveCD (although preferably using Disk Utility)?
 
raffir said:
A while ago I bought an external hard drive. At the time, I formatted half of it in UFS using Disk Utility, leaving the rest as empty space. Now, as far as I can tell, I can't format the rest to create a new partition without erasing the already extant volume!

Is there any way to format the free space while leaving the rest untouched, maybe using FDISK or a LiveCD (although preferably using Disk Utility)?
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Formatted half? Is it partitioned?
 
It has one partition created in the bottom half of the drive. The rest is "free space."
 
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