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Subject: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app?
From: Ant
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 07:57 UTC

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Subject: Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk Utilty app?
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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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Unable to format an ext. USB HDD's partition as HFS+ in Big Sur v11.6.1's Disk U	Ant