Partitioning drive for carbon copy clone, what formats?

[Renfred93]

hey, I'm about to partition my WD passport into two section . It's 120 gigs and I'm going to use 100 gigs to back up all by media on my mac (pictures music video) and then I'd like to have a 20 gig section for extra flexible storage/transporting files from computer to computer, including PCs. So carbon copy cloner says the drive has to be formatted to HFS+ but in disc utility I don't see HFS+ under partition/format. also for the smaller partition what would be the best format for what I described above?

 

[MacDawg]

HFS+ = Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

You might want to consider FAT32 for the smaller partition

Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[spinnerlys]

HFS+ is called Mac OS Extended in Disk Utility, there are four options there:

Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Mac OS Extended
Mac OS Extended Case Sensitive (Journaled)
Mac OS Extended Case Sensitive

Best format is either Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or Mac OS Extended, I recommend Mac OS Extended.

For the smaller partition I recommend FAT32 (called MS-DOS in Disk Utility), but the maximum file size for that file system is 4GB.
FAT32 can be read and written to by Mac OS X, Linux and Windows.

 

[Renfred93]

HFS+ = Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

You might want to consider FAT32 for the smaller partition

Check out the various file systems here: MR Guide: File Systems

Woof, Woof - Dawg

thanks for the answer! so for FAT32 I read somewhere I need some software, or have to format it on a windows computer? how would I do this

 

[MacDawg]

thanks for the answer! so for FAT32 I read somewhere I need some software, or have to format it on a windows computer? how would I do this

Not for FAT32
You are thinking of NTFS

Woof, Woof - Dawg

 

[spinnerlys]

thanks for the answer! so for FAT32 I read somewhere I need some software, or have to format it on a windows computer? how would I do this

Disk Utility can do that, as I said it's called MS.DOS (FAT) in that application.

 

[Renfred93]

ohhh, ok thanks, you're right I was thinking NTFS

 

[MacDawg]

ohhh, ok thanks, you're right I was thinking NTFS

If you want that capability, you can Google NTFS-3G
It will let you read, write and format NTFS

Woof, Woof - Dawg