Re: Bug#260763: [powerpc] Problems with logical volume setup during installation
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:45:00AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote:
> "Sven" == Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr> 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
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