Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
From: Tom Gall (tom_gall@vnet.ibm.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 07:05:32 MDT
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Hi all !
Greets!
> So I suggest moving to Linux_ext2, Linux_swap, or maybe simply Linux and
> Linux_swap (since ext2 is not the only filesystem Linux may put on
> these). Using a different type for swap would help avoiding confusion.
I agree. I think this is a good step. However there's the obvious interoperability
problems with MacOS, OS X etc... Hopefully Apple's OSes wouldn't do anything evil
to the partition they don't recognize.
Regards,
Tom
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