Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

Andrew Clausen
2001-01-22T16:48:20Z

Brian Gerst wrote:
> For compatability with dual booting other operating systems. Would you
> want Windows walking over your ext2 filesystems? Linux didn't invent
> the partition table schemes, it just borrows from those that are most
> common for a given architecture (ie. msdos on PC compatable systems,
> etc.)

Of course, we need to be careful of this kind of stuff. (That's the
only reason we have partition tables in the first place!)

But, for "well behaved operating systems", can't we do it this way?
(For the dos partition table scheme, 0x83 could be our "file system
type", 0x82 our "swap type", or whatever)

Tchau,
Andrew Clausen