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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ignore partition table on disks with AIX label
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mer, 2006-05-17 at 20:37 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> A big company who is all hot about Linux expressed no interrest so far
> to make AIX volumes readable in Linux.

All we want to know initially is how to correctly spot AIX volumes. As I
understand it the fs on them isn't from IBM anyway so they probably
can't tell us how it works.

Alan