From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "McCaffity, Ray" Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:46:52 +0000 Subject: RE: [Linux-ia64] EFI GPT tools ? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-IA64 mailing list Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64