What's the preferred method for creating the partition(s)? Then one you prefer.
Which reminds me. Not to jump topics in a thread but is there a native partition utility in the Hurd? I don't see fdisk, pdisk, cfdisk or any others that I know??? We use GNU Parted. You could also just create a file and start the translator on that instead of creating an partition on the hard-disk. I think that this is called loopback in GNU/Linux lingo.
