From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA02389 for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:05:26 -0600 Sender: adevries@feather.thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <3761504A.BF1480CA@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:07:06 -0400 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Grundler CC: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] partitioning on HPUX References: <199906111742.KAA16333@milano.cup.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii List-ID: Grant Grundler wrote: > Having once supported HP-UX SCSI disk drivers, I can only second the > reccomendation already made to only support "whole disk" file systems. > The whole hard partioning thing was a mess. Eventually, if someone > really needs to partition a disk, some support for LVM could be added > (and hopefully with a better user interface). Most Linux distributions really expect some sort of partitioning, so it's easier to just inherit an existing one. Usually there's a native partitioning format to follow, but by not having one we're forced to choose one. The obvious one is DOS, because it's been done many times over. I'd be happier doing something a little more sane like SGI though. Oh, and at some point we'll do LVM, but that'll mean merging it in with the existing Linux LVM tools. - Alex