selective partitioning

[jerfre]

I have several partitions on my Hard Drive and I want to reformat A particular partition to change it from a Linux file system to MacOS HFS, without interfering the data on the other partitions.
I noticed that in the Disc Utility on the MacOS X Install CD you can choose to "lock" single partitions on a hard drive. My question is if anyone, with success, have used this option? to reformat particular partitions without touching or erasing data on the "locked" partitions.

jerfre

 

[Pengu]

just open Disc Utility and select the partition you want to format, click on the erase tab, pick the filesystem you want and click erase. Simple. Locking is i think to make it easier to make custom partition sizes, so they dont go screwy while you're adjusting other sizes.