[parisc-linux] partitioning on HPUX

[John David Anglin]

> Alex deVries said:
> > Can anyone here describe how HPUX does partitioning?  We're going to
> > have to look at this at some point for interoperability with HPUX
> > filesystems.
> 
> As I understand it, HP-UX doesn't really do partitioning.  You have a
> choice of either using a whole disk for a file system, or you can use
> the logical volume manager.  From what I've seen, most of the people
> who use LVM also use VxFS (or JFS, a journalling filesystem).  It
> would probably be easiest then to just try to support HFS (HP's
> version of UFS, I think) using a whole disk.

On hpux 9.x and later (?), partitioning was supported using Software
Disk Striping (SDS).  See sdsadmin(1M).

Dave
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