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dont understand mac partitions

Feb 23, 2005, 12:04 PM

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my setup:

blueberry iMac 350mhz
40gig harddrive
256meg memory

i installed OS X first (i want to dual boot) i partitioned the
drive in the OS X setup, one small partition for bootstrap, one
512meg partition for swap, around 18gigs for the linux install
and the last partition was 20gigs for OS X, (that was the last
partition)

when i boot the livecd and run mac-fdisk, and print the
partition table i get this:

/dev/hda
# type name length
base ( size ) system
/dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @
1 ( 31.5k) Partition map
/dev/hda2 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @
64 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda3 Apple_UFS Apple_UFS_Untitled_2 150400
@ 17472 ( 73.4M) Unknown
/dev/hda4 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @
167872 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda5 Apple_UFS Apple_UFS_Untitled_3 1325056
@ 185280 (647.0M) Unknown
/dev/hda6 Apple_Boot eXternal booter 17408 @
1510336 ( 8.5M) Unknown
/dev/hda7 Apple_UFS Apple_UFS_Untitled_4 33486464
@ 1527744 ( 16.0G) Unknown
/dev/hda8 Apple_Free 262144 @
35014208 (128.0M) Free space
/dev/hda9 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_5 42899312
@ 35276352 ( 20.5G) HFS
/dev/hda10 Apple_Free 15 @
78175664 ( 7.5k) Free space

Block size=512, Number of Blocks=78175679
DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0

there are 10 partitions!! where did the extra ones come from? im
kinda confused as to where to go at this point the fdisk program
in general isnt the most user friendly, (partitioning by blocks
not size?) how can i get this back to what i originally had in
the OS X setup?

thanks

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Re: dont understand mac partitions [ In reply to ]

nick at computernick

Feb 23, 2005, 4:44 AM

Post #2 of 3 (1560 views)

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On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:25 -0500, A. Khattri wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Nick Smith wrote:
>
> > there are 10 partitions!! where did the extra ones come from? im
> > kinda confused as to where to go at this point the fdisk program
> > in general isnt the most user friendly, (partitioning by blocks
> > not size?) how can i get this back to what i originally had in
> > the OS X setup?
>
> Under BSD (which is what is under the hood in OS X), some of the
> "partitions" actually refer to the whole disks or other partitions already
> listed.
>
>
yeah but their at differnt blocks, im assuming its safe to delete them,
but i want to make sure, not getting many bites on this one, might have
to post it to the user list....
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Re: dont understand mac partitions [ In reply to ]

ajai at bway

Feb 23, 2005, 1:25 PM

Post #3 of 3 (1556 views)

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On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Nick Smith wrote:

> there are 10 partitions!! where did the extra ones come from? im
> kinda confused as to where to go at this point the fdisk program
> in general isnt the most user friendly, (partitioning by blocks
> not size?) how can i get this back to what i originally had in
> the OS X setup?

Under BSD (which is what is under the hood in OS X), some of the
"partitions" actually refer to the whole disks or other partitions already
listed.

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