From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936197AbXGMOff (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932191AbXGMOf0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:26 -0400 Received: from alnrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.225.94]:62677 "EHLO alnrmhc14.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760472AbXGMOfZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:25 -0400 From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard To: david@lang.hm Cc: Joseph Fannin , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Huang\, Ying" , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful References: <1184167831.12556.13.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <200707121453.49616.rjw@sisk.pl> <200707122134.29991.rjw@sisk.pl> <20070713054244.GA20082@nineveh.local> <20070713062039.GA29055@nineveh.local> <20070713071512.GB29055@nineveh.local> X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:22 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070713071512.GB29055@nineveh.local> (Joseph Fannin's message of "Fri\, 13 Jul 2007 03\:15\:12 -0400") Message-ID: <87odig1idx.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard