On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
A client has an eSATA dock for SATA disks and he's been using a 2TB disk on his Mac. He says that he just came in one morning to see that it was claiming to be empty.
<snip> I may be a little late to this conversation but I thought I'd share my experiences. I've found a combination of the Mac Disk Utility (as others have suggested) and linux GPTfdisk (gdisk) the best tools for playing with GPT partitions to be used by OSX. gdisk is especially useful when sharing a disk between OSX & linux as unlike Disk Utility it can read & manipulate partitions that use both Apple's HFS+ and popular linux filesystems. gdisk also adds some useful features for backing up, rebuilding & modifying MBR and GPT partition tables used by OSX. While anyone familiar with command line partitioning tools should find gdisk fairly straightforward the documentation is also quite good. See here for more info http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/