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Subject: Re: 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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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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