From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Rabbitson Subject: Re: Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks? Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:12:50 +0200 Message-ID: <484FC142.9030600@rabbit.us> References: <484F9A3E.7020709@rabbit.us> <20080611112319.GB4981@skl-net.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080611112319.GB4981@skl-net.de> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andre Noll Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Andre Noll wrote: > On 11:26, Peter Rabbitson wrote: > >> 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? > > Nobody really cares about the partition type these days. I usually > stick to the default 83 (Linux) for software raid partitions and > never encountered any problems. This is a very flawed assumption. You will be surprised how many utilities/live CDs are there in existence, which will selently attempt to mount/fsck a partition based solely on its type. The implications of a commenced mount/fsck on a raid component are not to be uttered here :)