Interesting Disk Partitions (was - Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400)
On Thu, 07 Sep 2000, Patrice LaFlamme wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
> > could you send me output of mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda (or whatever disk it
> > is) i am curious if you some how had a driver partition. if they are
> > really not needed that would be interesting and useful.
>
> I hope the output of pdisk -l /dev/hda is sufficient? :)
>
>
While waiting for the Debian 2.2 release (and more recently my Debian 2.2 CDs),
I have installed YellowDog and SuSE on my 7300. This pdisk output peaked my
curiosity, so I looked at the disk that has SuSE on it using fdisk and pdisk:
[root@p7300 /root]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 67 heads, 62 sectors, 1009 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4154 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 3 6200 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 4 67 132928 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb3 68 1009 1956534 83 Linux
[root@p7300 /root]# pdisk -l /dev/sdb
Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sdb'
#: type name length base ( size )
1: Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1
2: Apple_Driver43 Macintosh 32 @ 64
3: Apple_HFS MacOS 256770 @ 96 (125.4M)
4: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Root file system 410832 @ 256866 (200.6M)
5: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Usr file system 2567700 @ 667698 ( 1.2G)
6: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 1 244020 @ 3235398 (119.2M)
7: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Unreserved 2 400890 @ 3479418 (195.7M)
8: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 Swap 129185 @ 3880308 ( 63.1M)
9: Apple_HFS MacOS 184561 @ 4009493 ( 90.1M)
10: Apple_Free Extra 3 @ 4194054
Device block size=512, Number of Blocks=4194056 (2.0G)
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Interestingly, the pdisk output matches the old partitioning of this drive from
when I had Debian/m68k on it for a Quadra 605. The fdisk output is the SuSE ppc
partitioning.
Anyone have a clue why both partition maps are coexisting on the same drive? Do
I need to do anything to "fix" this?
Thanks,
Rick Cook
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rcook@ntlug.org
rcook@hex.net
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