Mac HD Partitions
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The Partitions
The Ubuntu install process on PowerPC machines (iMac, PowerMac, etc) creates four partitions. Using the command sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda in a terminal (assuming that the device is a hard drive and has been formatted by Ubuntu) shows the result:
/dev/hda # type name length base ( size ) system /dev/hda1 Apple_partition_map Apple 63 @ 1 ( 31.5k) Partition map /dev/hda2 Apple_Bootstrap untitled 1954 @ 64 (977.0k) NewWorld bootblock /dev/hda3 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 untitled 13931641 @ 2018 ( 6.6G) Linux native /dev/hda4 Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap 734631 @ 13933659 (358.7M) Linux swap Block size=512, Number of Blocks=14668290 DeviceType=0x0, DeviceId=0x0
Note that this looks different from the x86 (PC) fdisk partition table.