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 14:20:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:20:33 -0500 Received: from smtp.alacritech.com ([209.10.208.82]:29706 "EHLO smtp.alacritech.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:20:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6DDAD4.4889AC42@alacritech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:26:12 -0800 From: "Matt D. Robinson" Organization: Alacritech, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM In-Reply-To: <200101230447.f0N4lpf23686@webber.adilger.net> 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 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 - 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/