From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Tom Vier , , Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:33:09 +0200 Message-Id: <20000709213309.30020@192.168.1.10> In-Reply-To: <20000709172219.C12414@zero> References: <20000709172219.C12414@zero> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >i'd vote for "ext2", "hfs", etc. call them what they are, and keep it simple, >instead of "Linux_Ext2fs" or something similar. That won't work for 2 reasons: - MacOS and MacOS X won't mount HFS partitions if the type is not Apple_HFS - If we put the fs type (like Linux_ext2) in the partition type, it's not updated by the various linux mkxxxx tools, and can be confusing. I would rather keep a simple "Linux" type, along with "Linux_swap" to help skipping swap partition in bootloaders (and installers) Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/