Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful

Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2007-07-13T14:35:35Z

jfannin@gmail.com (Joseph Fannin) writes:

[snip]

> Intel Macs use GPT partition tables, which support a huge number
> of primary partitions, and so don't support secondary partitions.

> 32bit Windows does not support GPT, so PC-style MBR partition tables
> must also be used. GPT was designed to coexist with MBR tools, so
> this mostly works, but you're limited to the union of supported
> features -- 4 primary partitions, no secondaries.

There is a very simple solution to this obscure problem: (if I
understand correctly, you want to dual boot Mac OS X and Linux (and
maybe also Windows?))

use LVM, thus allowing you to have as many volumes as you like in the
partition

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard