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 13:35:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:35:30 -0500 Received: from postfix.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.155]:35857 "HELO postfix.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:35:26 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6DCEEC.66B15F3F@conectiva.com.br> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:35:24 -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 Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bug-parted@gnu.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: > Allow me to reword to what you probably meant: Have a partition > ID that means "generic partition - check signatures within for > details." (And then get people who develop file systems for use > with Linux, at least, to have a policy of always using that). OK. > Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID" > for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has > never identified the partition, but rather described its contents. Yes, "partition type ID" is better. 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/