Re: BTRFS partition usage...

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Feb 12 2008 - 18:34:41 EST


From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:21:52 +0100 (CET)

> For sparc you could have something like
>
> startlba endlba type
> sda1 0 2 1 Boot
> sda2 2 58 3 Whole disk
> sda3 58 90000 83 Linux
>
> and slap the bootloader into "MBR", just like on x86.
> Or I am missing something..

You cannot specify partitions on LBA boundaries on sparc, the Sun disk
label specifies the partition start points in cylinders.
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