On Mo, 24 Nov 2008, Toni Wilen wrote: > Bernd Schmidt wrote: > >Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > >>I mean a single partition on an RDB hardfile. Creating a "blank" > >>hardfile with dd and parted (for the "amiga" disk label) results in a > >>device that is unrecognised by uae; HDtoolbox and format. There's just > >>nothing there. > > > >Again the question: why partition it? You can create a plain > >unpartitioned amiga HD and format it under AmigaOS. Why do you think it > >needs an RDB? > > It gets tricky if you use other filesystem than FFS.. (like SFS) > and some disk repair etc programs hate "non-real" partitions. (SFS > utilities for example) Which is another of the reasons I use them. For those not familiar, SFS: http://strohmayer.org/sfs/