Re: LBA48 partitioning scheme

Hello Andrew -

I don't see any reason why Xbox-Linux/Cromwell couldn't be modified to support my simple partitioning mechanism.  (and, I'm not sure what to call it either: I introduced it along with the "LBA48" patches, but it really has nothing to do with LBA48).

The Xbox program "Xbpartitioner" (I think that's the name - it's from the developer of "Xbtool") also makes use of the partitioning table format I devised (Xbpartitioner lets you make edits to the table - I never came up with such a tool).

I don't know enough about Xbox-Linux/Cromwell to know how much work would be involved - I believe the work would be very isolated and simple to implement, though.

- Paulb

From: Andrew de Quincey <[email protected]>
Date: Mon May 30 12:21:56 CDT 2005
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Xbox-linux] LBA48 partitioning scheme

Hi, I was wondering why xbox linux does not support the "LBA48" partitioning 
scheme designed by Paul Bartholomew (oz_paulb) (I'm at a loss to find a 
better name for it). It would be useuful for me because then I could divide 
up my 80Gb HDD sensibly between the xbox OS and linux.

Would anyone object to patches for it? I'd imagine it would be a patch to 
cromwell and linux itself (since cromwell accesses the partitions raw - using 
my code, I'm slightly amused to notice :) ).


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