When using the mac segment manager, evms' numbering of partitions differs from the partition map and kernel numbering. The kernel numbering fits the partion map (see next two listings). EVMS is not taking the partition map (hda1) and the free space (hda2) into account. Therefore the on-disk partition hda7 is numbered hda5 in evms. hda5 is my mounted root partition and that prevents evms from using its hda5 (the real hda7) as it thinks that it is mounted. partition map: # mac-fdisk -l /dev/hda /dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Free Extra 262144 @ 64 (128.0M) Free space /dev/hda3 Apple_HFS Apple_HFS_Untitled_1 29034668 @ 262208 ( 13.8G) HFS /dev/hda4 Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 1600 @ 78150808 (800.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda5 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux1 73400320 @ 78152408 ( 35.0G) Linux native /dev/hda6 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 4748760 @ 151552728 ( 2.3G) Linux swap /dev/hda7 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 linux2 48853932 @ 29296876 ( 23.3G) Linux native kernel: # ls -l /dev/hda* brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda1 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda2 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 3 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda3 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda4 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda5 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda6 brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 2007-01-01 17:43 /dev/hda7 evms: # ls -l /dev/evms/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2007-01-03 14:16 dm brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 0 2007-01-01 17:43 hda1 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 1 2007-01-01 17:43 hda2 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 2 2007-01-01 17:43 hda3 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 4 2007-01-02 20:08 hda4 brw-r----- 1 root root 253, 3 2007-01-02 20:10 hda5
sys-fs/evms has been removed from portage tree
