[Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?

[Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?

[Martin Wilck]

Some months ago, my colleague Josef Moellers posted
a question on the availability of fdisk and friends
with support for the EFI GPT. The tools on Redhat 7.1
beta do not support this format, thus RedHat cannot
be installed on GPT-Formatted disks.

Does anybody know if someone works on this problem,
or do these tools already exist somewhere ?

Regards,
Martin

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RE: [Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?

[Matt_Domsch]

> Some months ago, my colleague Josef Moellers posted
> a question on the availability of fdisk and friends
> with support for the EFI GPT. The tools on Redhat 7.1
> beta do not support this format, thus RedHat cannot
> be installed on GPT-Formatted disks.
> 
> Does anybody know if someone works on this problem,
> or do these tools already exist somewhere ?

I've made a patch to GNU parted to support partitioning disks with GPT.
There are two patches to parted 1.4.11 available at
http://domsch.com/linux/parted.  Apply the pmbrfix patch second.

To my knowledge, no one has tried modifying fdisk yet.  I haven't had the
time myself.

The kernel understands GPT-partitioned disks just fine.

Thanks,
Matt


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Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
Dell Linux Systems Group
Linux OS Development
www.dell.com/linux

RE: [Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?

[McCaffity, Ray]

I guess I'm not really sure what GPT is, but is there any IA64
support journaled file systems yet?  (ReiserFS or JFS, etc..)
If this is the parted tool for partitioning, I have used that
on x86, but doesn't appear to support anything but ext2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt_Domsch@Dell.com [mailto:Matt_Domsch@Dell.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 7:14 AM
To: Martin.Wilck@fujitsu-siemens.com; linux-ia64@linuxia64.org
Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?


> Some months ago, my colleague Josef Moellers posted
> a question on the availability of fdisk and friends
> with support for the EFI GPT. The tools on Redhat 7.1
> beta do not support this format, thus RedHat cannot
> be installed on GPT-Formatted disks.
> 
> Does anybody know if someone works on this problem,
> or do these tools already exist somewhere ?

I've made a patch to GNU parted to support partitioning disks with GPT.
There are two patches to parted 1.4.11 available at
http://domsch.com/linux/parted.  Apply the pmbrfix patch second.

To my knowledge, no one has tried modifying fdisk yet.  I haven't had the
time myself.

The kernel understands GPT-partitioned disks just fine.

Thanks,
Matt


-- 
Matt Domsch
Sr. Software Engineer
Dell Linux Systems Group
Linux OS Development
www.dell.com/linux



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Re: [Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ?

[Keith Owens]

On Tue, 15 May 2001 09:46:52 -0500, 
"McCaffity, Ray" <ray.mccaffity@wcg.com> wrote:
>is there any IA64 support journaled file systems yet?

XFS.  http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs.