From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:09:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:09:06 -0500 Received: from postfix.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.155]:36621 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:09:00 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6DBAA2.C95329DA@conectiva.com.br> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:08:50 -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: Bryan Henderson , 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: 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 Bryan Henderson wrote: > If you're going to complain about the way partition IDs are assigned, > a valid complaint would be that "83" is defined as "Linux," instead > of as something that actually indicates the kind of filesystem on the > partition. OK. s/Linux/Well behaved operationing systems that look for file system signatures, rather than relying on stupid Partition IDs/ 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/