Re: Bloody alpha ignorant

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@campus.iztacala.unam.mx>]

> > You can see that, while 'c' occupies from sector 1 until 39693, its
> > filesystem is marked as 'unused' - Alphas, as many other Unix
> > architectures, require partition c to be the 'wholedisk' partition.
>
> Is that actually true for Linux?
>
> I present as evidence:
>
> centauri:root:~$ uname -a
> Linux centauri 2.4.18 #12 Sat May 11 12:53:48 BST 2002 alpha unknown
> centauri:root:~# fdisk /dev/sda
> [...]
> 3 partitions:
> #       start       end      size     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
>   a:        2       154       153       ext2
>   b:      155       220        66       swap
>   c:      221      1018       798       ext2
>
> Is this going to cause problems somewhere?

Well... I can't disprove facts based on supposed knowledge! ;-) I do keep
c as wholedisk just to be standard...

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