What software is required for me to partition an 80GB Maxtor 3.5" HDD
into 4 seperate filesystems/partitions. I'd like a 50GB HFS+, a 10GB
NTFS, a 10GB Ext3, and a 10GB FAT32 partition.  How do I go about
doing this and or what software is needed?  I'm using a Mac Mini to do
this and the HDD is in an external case (USB 2.0).

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Request for Question Clarification by leapinglizard-ga on 11 Apr 2005 03:50 PDT

Does your Mac Mini have fdisk installed? I believe it should. Try
executing "fdisk" in a terminal window and tell me what happens.

leapinglizard

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Clarification of Question by emperorsnippy-ga on 14 Apr 2005 16:59 PDT

Yep, it's got fdisk installed.  I've got a ton of options:

oh-waterville1a-6:~ Derk$ fdisk
usage: fdisk [-ieu] [-f mbrboot] [-c cyl -h head -s sect] [-S size]
[-r] [-a style] disk
        -i: initialize disk with new MBR
        -u: update MBR code, preserve partition table
        -e: edit MBRs on disk interactively
        -f: specify non-standard MBR template
        -chs: specify disk geometry
        -S: specify disk size
        -r: read partition specs from stdin (implies -i)
        -a: auto-partition with the given style
        -d: dump partition table
        -y: don't ask any questions
        -t: test if disk is partitioned
`disk' is of the form /dev/rdisk0.
auto-partition styles:
  boothfs     8Mb boot plus HFS+ root partition (default)
  bootufs     8Mb boot plus UFS root partition
  hfs         Entire disk as one HFS+ partition
  ufs         Entire disk as one UFS partition
  dos         Entire disk as one DOS partition
  raid        Entire disk as one 0xAC partition

If your goal is to separate your HDD to different partitions(at least
4) than i can advice you Acronis Disk Director
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/

...is very tricky and quite a hack, but some crazies over at
MacOSXHints.com have figured out how to do it.  Go to the following
URL and read the whole thread:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030613121738812

They only cover HFS+ and FAT (they don't cover how to add NTFS and
ext3 to the same drive), but you could probably get their basic method
to work for those additional partition formats as well.

Good luck.