Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Fri Jul 07 2000 - 10:25:37 MDT
Yellow Dog currently uses Apple_UNIX_SVR2.
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > Well, they don't at this point. For example in partitioning tool in
> > LinuxPPC 2000, LinuxPPC Inc decided it would be better to use the type
> > "Linux_PPC". This works (in that nothing gets overwritten, corrupted,
> > etc) but has the disadvantage that no other software knows anything
> > about that type.
>
> So can we get all distributions to agree on this partition type scheme?
> IIRC Debian currently relies on the Apple_Unix_SVR2 type, and ignores
> everything else for the purpose of installing or creating swap space. I'd
> like to update the Debian version of pdisk to recognize types used by
> other distributions if possible.
> LinuxPPC 1999 used the same type, and I think the 2000 change is a bad
> thing. What are YellowDog and SuSE using?
>
> Plus I don't think Apple cares too much, they may currently ignore strange
> partition types but decide to nuke them tomorrow.
>
> Benh: are you maintaining the official version of pdisk now?
>
> Michael
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