"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sven> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 08:50:48PM -0800, Shyamal Prasad
Sven> wrote:
>> I created a partition with type Linux_LVM and name LVM_Test
>> using mac-fdisk. I put an ext3 file system on the partition so
>> I could fsck/mount it to see if the Mac OS programs or OF
>> screwed around with the partition data itself. Then I did the
>> following tests.
>>
>> Booted into Mac OS X 10.3.7 (Open Firmware 5.1.8f7) and used
>> the Disk Utility to look at the partitions. The test partition
>> shows up, and a "Get Info" showed its type as
>> 'Linux_LVM'. Booted back into Linux and the Linux_LVM partition
>> was still good.
Sven> Tell me, when you create a Apple_UNIX_SVR2 partition, does
Sven> it show up too ?
Actually, yes. The latest Disk Utility seems to show all partitions
other than the Apple_Bootstrap partition and those mysterious ones
that I believe are related to the partition map itself (the first one
annd the last one, I think). So I can see the Apple_UNIX_SVR2
partitions too.
On the older MacOS releases only the HFS+ partition shows up.
Sven> I guess not, then this would be the main difference, and we
Sven> have to see if :
Sven> 1) we can get apple to recognize those.
I don't believe this is a problem with the latest Mac OS X.
Sven> 2) people can live with this smallish difference.
If they are running Linux and BSD on older MacOS I suppose they
already do :-)
Cheers!
Shyamal
