Introduction to Block Devices

Introduction to Block Devices @@ -124,13 +124,9 @@

- SGI Volume Header (9th partition): This partition is important. It - is where the arcboot bootloader will go. + is where the bootloader, and in some cases, will also contain the kernel + images.
SGI Volume (11th partition): This partition is similar in purpose to @@ -203,22 +199,32 @@ second is to overwrite the partition table with null data via the following command: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1. + + + + +Getting the SGI Volume Header to just the right size + - +
If you're unsure how to use fdisk have a look down further at the instructions for partitioning on Cobalts. The concepts are exactly the same -- just remember to leave the volume header and whole disk partitions alone.
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Now that your partitions are created, you can now continue with -O dir_index to the mke2fs command. In short, ext3 is an -excellent filesystem. +high performance in almost all situations. In short, ext3 is an excellent +filesystem.