[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

[fulmer]

you should be able to boot from the 10.2 disc and select only the one partition to format, at which point you'll be able to choose the format (you'll want HFS+ since you're ditching Linux).

[Art Vandelay]

As long as the partition isn't the boot partition, you can format with Disk Utility while booted from the drive. You don't have to boot from the CD. Also, it isn't necessary to lock the other partitions to prevent them from being formatted as long as you only select the desired partition and not the drive.

[jerfre]

Thanks guys!
I'll give it a try!

jerfre