On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 09:53:15AM +0200, Michel Lanners wrote: > > Remember that physical order on disk doesn't necessarily mean the same > thing as order in the partition map.
correct. > AFAIR, you can have your partitions physically in any order you want > (with the one exception beeing the first partition, the partition map > itself), while showing a _different_ order within the partition map. correct. the map must be at slot 1 however, otherwise Bad Things happen. > Ethan, any info whether OF works on physical order rather than partition > table order? it uses the logical order not physical order. my mac-fdisk doc describes how to use the r command in mac-fdisk to repair improperly partitioned disks. > Agreed, this is not the most intuitive nor the clearest way to hadle > things, but it _might_ save you reformating or moving partitions around > _physically_ in some cases. I think there are/were some tools that > support reordering partitions in the partition map, if you like > dangerous games. mac-fdisk can do it, and the risk is minimal. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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