partitioning an external HD

[sepandee]

This might belong in the peripheral forum, but since it involves having a prgoram to partition the HD, and there are more people viewing this section, I decided to post it here. If admin thinks this is inappropriate, please move the thread. Thanks!

I just got my beautiful Seagate FreeAgent Pro, although it would be more beautiful had they allowed for the base to come off (would make packing it in a suitcase so much easier). I swear, I'm amazed that sometimes companies don't ahve the decency to give us such a minimal option as this one.

K, this is from one of my previous threads:

I believe you can install (forgot the name at the moment) a utility that lets OS X read and write to NTFS. It's available for Unix and Linux, so think OS X has it. called ntfs3g or something. Can't quite remember.

Many people who have a MBP/MB make 3 partitions, the OS X, NTFS for XP and Fat 32 for files shared between OS X and XP. But since you won't be running into the file size issue, you should be fine using Fat32.

First of all, the OS X partition, did he mean HFS+ by that?
Second of all, how do i go about partitioning the HD?

 

[mad jew]

Yeah, I believe OSX partition was referring to HFS+. You can partition a drive from Disk Utility in the Utilities folder. There should be a partitions tab near the top somewhere.