[488] in linux-scsi channel archive
Disk drive stuff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Duerstock)
Thu Aug 10 04:44:53 1995
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 20:06:20 -0400
From: Jason Duerstock <jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu>
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
I've had a couple of questions in the back of my mind for a while and I
think it's time to get around to asking them. :)
1) Is there any particular reason to partition a disk that is going to be
dedicated to Linux? i.e. if I have a second drive in my system that isn't
needed for booting, can I just "mke2fs /dev/hdb" and forget partitioning it?
2) How is partitioning handled on SCSI drives with 1024-byte sectors? Is
partitioning needed there? (this sort of ties in with #1)
3) On drives >8 GB, how is partitioning handled?
Jason Duerstock
jduersto@kendall.mdcc.edu
jasond@mdcs2.cs.mdcc.edu
