Re: Interesting Disk Partitions (was - Re: Installation super-woes on PowerBook 3400)
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 10:11:45PM -0500, Rick Cook wrote:
> 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
As Ethan said, the two can coexist. SuSE (lazily, IMO) just uses the
PC partition tables; then the kernel (which has x86 partition table
support enabled) scans that one first. It's a godawful, unsafe hack -
macos will NOT coexist happily with it.
Dan
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