What partition map for mac boot usb3/16/2023 ![]() [part1Format part1Name part1Size part2Format part2Name part2Size To repartition with an MBR partition table but without formatting the USB you can do that using the following command diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk2 MBR Free Space 100%ĭiskutil Usage Usage: diskutil partitionDisk MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode To erase and format your USB flash drive into MBR and FAT32 use the following code snippet below diskutil partitionDisk /dev/your-usb-disk MBR MS-DOS FAT32 100% I have to then delete the partition table from GPT to MBR and load LUBUNTU Linux distribution into the flash drive using Unetbootin. It turns out that old laptop only support MBR and not GPT boot record and FAT32 instead of EX-FAT. During this COVID-19 lockdown in Malaysia, I wanted to use my weekend time in installing Linux on an old laptop. ![]() In macOS you do easily do that using diskutil. You may want to completely erase the partition table of your USB flash drive including the boot record.
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