There are other questions on SO about this, but not asking what I want.
I do not want to know how to format an external FAT32 disk from terminal, because this can be done by typing this:
sudo diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 MYDISK MBRFormat /dev/disk2
but this is the problem.
A disk formatted using this will be shown on disk util like this:
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2
1: DOS_FAT_32 MYDISK 2.0 TB disk2s1
a real disk formatted by windows will appear like this
/dev/disk11 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: IOMEGA *1.0 TB disk11
see that the Mac version has 2 partitions.
I have tried using exFAT
instead of FAT32
, on that command line. No change.
I am having problems using that Mac formatted disk as a shared disk on a router and the windows version works fine.
The problem is that I don't have windows anymore. This windows formatted disk I have was formatted years ago.
How do I do that?
there is no drawback from having one [partition table]
as the OP clearly stated that the partition was causing issues with his router disk sharing. I also need a FAT32 disk without partitions to flash a BIOS as my EZ-Flash BIOS doesn't understand partitions, and it also refuses to boot FreeDOS from a USB with partitions to run theupdate.exe
utility. I resorted to passing the USB through to a Windows VM in Virtual Box that I had handy, but I'm sure there's an easy OSX/Linux way to do it.