linux-kernel - Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful

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Date:	Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:35:22 -0400
From:	Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@....edu>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	Joseph Fannin <jfannin@...il.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	"Huang\, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, nigel@...el.suspend2.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: Hibernating To Swap Considered Harmful

jfannin@...il.com (Joseph Fannin) writes:

[snip]

> Intel Macs use GPT partition tables, which support a huge number
> of primary partitions, and so don't support secondary partitions.

> 32bit Windows does not support GPT, so PC-style MBR partition tables
> must also be used.  GPT was designed to coexist with MBR tools, so
> this mostly works, but you're limited to the union of supported
> features -- 4 primary partitions, no secondaries.

There is a very simple solution to this obscure problem: (if I
understand correctly, you want to dual boot Mac OS X and Linux (and
maybe also Windows?))

use LVM, thus allowing you to have as many volumes as you like in the
partition

-- 
Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
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