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Hello.

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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On 1. Dec 2021 at 08:48:53 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3
Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Montereys Disk Utility can format HFS+, so I guess Big Sur can as well.

Did you select "show all devices" from the little menu in the top left
corner?
I guess it says "ony volumes" for you.

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Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> wrote:

On 1. Dec 2021 at 08:48:53 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3
Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Montereys Disk Utility can format HFS+, so I guess Big Sur can as well.

Did you select "show all devices" from the little menu in the top left corner?
I guess it says "ony volumes" for you.

I'll check again later. I wanted to reformat an old HFS+ partition, but
it only gave me APFS options.
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In message <cOOdnYDi0e54tTr8nZ2dnUU7-fvNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote:

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an
ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB HDD's partition as old HFS+?

No.


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On 1. Dec 2021 at 12:51:18 CET, "Ant" <Ant> wrote:

I'll check again later. I wanted to reformat an old HFS+ partition, but
it only gave me APFS options.

Not sure if you can reformat a single partition to HFS+.
You might have to reformat the whole drive.

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In comp.sys.mac.apps Ant <ant@zimage.comant> wrote:

Hello.

Did Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app remove the option to format an ext. USB3 Seagate 6 TB
HDD's partition as old HFS+? I still want this old FS to be backward compatible with older
Macs like 2008 and 2012 MBPs. Do I need to use an old Mac to do this? :(

Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)

OK, I figured it out. I have to format the disk container to do it.
That was confusing.
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