From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3965D59C.BC1BAC93@vnet.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:05:32 -0500 From: Tom Gall MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yellowdog-devel@lists.yellowdoglinux.com CC: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc References: <20000707105915.30418@mailhost.mipsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. Regards, Tom Tom Gall - PowerPC Linux Team "Where's the ka-boom? There was Linux Technology Center supposed to be an earth (w) tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com shattering ka-boom!" (w) 507-253-4558 -- Marvin Martian (h) tgall@uswest.net http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/linux ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/