I don't see how to tell parted to partition the Seagate FreeAgent Go 1T<br><br>parted help lists the following:<br> mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition<br> mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END make a partition with a file system<br>
<br>parted help mkpartfs lists: <br><br>(parted) help mkpartfs <br> mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END make a partition with a file system<br><br> PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended<br>
START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%. Negative values<br> count from the end of the disk. For example, -1s specifies exactly the<br> last sector.<br><br>parted help mkpart lists:<br>
<br> mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition<br><br> PART-TYPE is one of: primary, logical, extended<br> FS-TYPE is one of: ext3, ext2, fat32, fat16, hfsx, hfs+, hfs, jfs,<br> linux-swap, ntfs, reiserfs, hp-ufs, sun-ufs, xfs, apfs2, apfs1, asfs,<br>
amufs5, amufs4, amufs3, amufs2, amufs1, amufs0, amufs, affs7, affs6,<br> affs5, affs4, affs3, affs2, affs1, affs0<br> START and END are disk locations, such as 4GB or 10%. Negative values<br> count from the end of the disk. For example, -1s specifies exactly the<br>
last sector.<br> <br> 'mkpart' makes a partition without creating a new file system on the<br> partition. FS-TYPE may be specified to set an appropriate partition<br> ID.<br><br>
<br>I'm assuming I want mkpartfs. But I don't see how I can specify which drive.<br><br>What am I missing?<br><br>Thank you<br><br>Darlene Wallach<br>-- <br>equal justice under law<br>