Partitioning

There is one additional step required when partitioning a hard drive for Red Hat Linux/SPARC. You must create the third partition of every disk as type "Whole Disk," spanning from cylinder 0 to the end of the disk. It shouldn't be used in any way, but it must exist. You can still create other partitions as you normally would.

Note that this partition will already exist on any disk that has been used under SunOS or Solaris. If you are partitioning a new disk, you can use fdisk's s command to create a standard disk label (which includes the whole-disk partition). If you don't like the size of the other partitions created by s, you can delete those partitions and recreate them with the sizes you want.

	Please Note
	In Red Hat Linux/SPARC 6.2, Disk Druid can be used to initialize disk labels on a SPARC. Disk Druid no longer uses the third partition slot for non-whole disk partitions and automatically creates the whole disk partition if the third partition slot is free.