Greg Freemyer a écrit :
I think it is great you are working on that howto. I consider myself very knowledgeable about partitioning and I've learned a few things about new concerns in just the last month or two.
me too :-)
1) Under software tools, I would like to see gpart listed and then a link to later in the doc where you already explain how it is used.
of course, I ean to speak of every tool. That's not easy. For example, most tools don't even try to partition loop mounted files when this is a very interesting use (but may be not necessary with partitions), when virtualization is so growing
2) As I assume you already realize, you need to add a section on partition alignment.
I even wonder if I shouldn't spread this HOWTO in several full HOWTOs in place of only chapters. In fact as I see now, there is room for a basic partition HOWTO, assuming the tools do the smart things for the user (usually they do the alignment work themselve) - most users wont even try to read detailed doc as is needed (I just read the details barriers page quoted by Wikipedia, very interesting :-) and an "advanced" HOWTO for the experts
Vista has changed the default to use 1 MiB offset...
the recommandation to always let Windows partition it's part of the disk and only thereafter do the Linux part may be still valuable :-)
2.1) Just yesterday I saw a post that some SSDs monitor the partition table contents and realign themselves internally to make the alignment work. (That is just plain crazy to me, but it is what it is.) Worthy of a comment in the HowTo assuming it is true.
USB drives are more and more common - say externally connected drives, to be more general (including SATA and IEEE1394). Booting external drives is very challenging, so is the firmware of basic usb keys (I still wonder how fidsk knows the full size of the usb key quoted in my first post)
table for drives (logical or physical) that exceed 2TB.
future system will have to be seen
4) No reference to /proc/partitions. (Is there an equivalent in /sys ?)
some comments are on the definition document
5) Is a section about future ideas appropriate?
absolutely. jdd NB: what is the openSUSE partition tool? is it special or gpart version? fidsk is rewritten now with parted libraries (seems to be different than the util-linux used in openSUSE) -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1412160445 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org