From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 15:28:06 +0200 From: Olaf Hering To: Tom Gall Cc: yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Message-ID: <20000707152806.E12840@suse.de> References: <20000707105915.30418@mailhost.mipsys.com> <3965D59C.BC1BAC93@vnet.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3965D59C.BC1BAC93@vnet.ibm.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: On Fri, Jul 07, Tom Gall wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > Hi all ! > > Greets! > > > So I suggest moving to Linux_ext2, Linux_swap, or maybe simply Linux and > > Linux_swap (since ext2 is not the only filesystem Linux may put on > > these). Using a different type for swap would help avoiding confusion. > > I agree. I think this is a good step. However there's the obvious interoperability > problems with MacOS, OS X etc... Hopefully Apple's OSes wouldn't do anything evil > to the partition they don't recognize. As someone real important said a couple of weeks ago: Don't trust them. You know the slogan of Apple ;) Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented... ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/