Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Guest section DW
2001-05-17T09:39:55Z

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 02:35:55AM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:

> The PC partition table has such an ID. The LILO change log
> mentions it. I think it's 6 random bytes, with some restriction
> about being non-zero.

You are confused. The partition table contains IDs, but these are
the numbers like 83 for a Linux partition. No disk-identifying numbers.