From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@alacritech.com>
To: Andreas Dilger <adilger@turbolinux.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:26:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A6DDAD4.4889AC42@alacritech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200101230447.f0N4lpf23686@webber.adilger.net>
Andreas Dilger wrote:
>
> H. Peter Anvin writes:
> > We have:
> >
> > 0x82 - Linux swap
> > 0x83 - Linux filesystem
> > 0x85 - Linux extended partition (yes, this one does matter!)
> >
> > There seems to be some value in having a different value for swap. It
> > lets an automatic program find a partition that does not contain data.
>
> What would be wrong with changing the kernel to skip the first page of
> swap, and allowing us to put a signature there? This would be really
> useful for systems that mount ext2 filesystems by LABEL or UUID. With
> the exception of swap, you currently don't need to care about what disk
> a filesystem is on. Of course, LVM also fixes this, but not everyone
> runs LVM.
LKCD starts writing a crash dump after the first page of the swap
partition (if that is used as the dump partition), so I'd hate to see
this implemented.
--Matt
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-23 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-22 16:17 Partition IDs in the New World TM Andrew Clausen
2001-01-22 16:32 ` Brian Gerst
2001-01-22 16:47 ` Andrew Clausen
2001-01-22 21:39 ` Russell King
2001-01-22 22:30 ` Andrew Clausen
2001-01-22 22:42 ` Russell King
2001-01-22 23:28 ` Andrew Clausen
2001-01-22 23:35 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-23 4:47 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-23 6:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-01-23 19:26 ` Matt D. Robinson [this message]
2001-01-24 8:18 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-22 22:16 ` Glenn McGrath
2001-01-22 23:35 ` Jason Venner
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2001-01-22 22:42 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-22 17:35 ` Mark I Manning IV
2001-01-22 22:55 Andries.Brouwer
2001-01-23 15:46 Andries.Brouwer
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2001-01-23 17:08 ` Andrew Clausen
[not found] <OF5F9BE7DB.C1ADFB0E-ON872569DD.006485CC@LocalDomain>
2001-01-23 18:35 ` Andrew Clausen
2001-01-23 22:01 ` Glenn McGrath
2001-01-24 13:40 ` Andrew Clausen
2001-01-24 10:28 Andries.Brouwer
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