Problem with formatting a mac partition

[kjur]

hi all

 

my harddrive had below partitions:

[	1:hfs+	][	2:hfs+	][	 3:fat32	][	4:linux native   ][ 5:linux swap ]

 

i wanted to resize some of them and do something like this:

[ 1:hfs+ ][ 2:hfs+ ][   3:fat32   ][  4:linux native  ][		 5:linux native		 ]

when width of the [ ... ] field means size of a partition.

using command line i could resize hfs+ partitions, but couldn't move the partition #2 down to have all free space as one piece.

i switched journalling off for #1 and #2 and then i could resize them, but still could move #2 down. using my xubuntu system and gparted i resized #1, deleted #2 and create again with the size i wanted. also resized all the other partitions.

 

the problem is i couldn't create hfs+ in gparted so i tried to create blank (non-formatted) or linux partitions and then re-format it under mac using one of these guides:

 

http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pcarbo/macnexstar.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89960

 

but no luck. even if gparted or fdisk under linux says it's formatted as hfs+ i can't see it under mac.

 

could anyone help me how to format it with no loosing other paritions on the harddrive?

 

cheers,

g.