From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:48:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:48:11 -0500 Received: from postfix.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.155]:9234 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:47:52 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6C642E.2DF49CC0@conectiva.com.br> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 14:47:42 -0200 From: Andrew Clausen Organization: Conectiva X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [pt_BR] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Gerst Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, bug-parted@gnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM In-Reply-To: <3A6C5D12.99704689@conectiva.com.br> <3A6C609F.F135DB0@didntduck.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/