Mac HD Partitions

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.