On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:45:00AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > "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.
Ok, cool, so we can without risk choose those partition types. > 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 :-) Bah. Anyway, next step is to get the lvm-tools debian maintainer informed of our choice, and get his opinion of this. The lvm-tools maintainer and the mdadm too for raid stuff. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
