From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Brown Subject: Re: Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks? Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:52:52 +1000 Message-ID: <18512.25940.653867.623185@notabene.brown> References: <484F9A3E.7020709@rabbit.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: message from Peter Rabbitson on Wednesday June 11 Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Rabbitson Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wednesday June 11, rabbit+list@rabbit.us wrote: > Hello, > > The subject pretty much says it all - it obviously is not 0xFD, since there is > nothing to autodetect. Is there some best practice/semi-standard way of > marking a raid component partition as such? After reading the specs 0xDA > (non-fs data) comes to mind, but I figured I'll ask here. > I (almost) alway make arrays out of whole devices, not partitions, so I really never thought about this. I suspect 0xDA is safest and hence best. I wonder if this should be suggested in the mdadm man page anywhere.... anyone feel like creating a patch? NeilBrown