Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (bh40@calva.net)
Date: Sun Jul 09 2000 - 15:33:09 MDT
>i'd vote for "ext2", "hfs", etc. call them what they are, and keep it simple,
>instead of "Linux_Ext2fs" or something similar.
That won't work for 2 reasons:
- MacOS and MacOS X won't mount HFS partitions if the type is not Apple_HFS
- If we put the fs type (like Linux_ext2) in the partition type, it's
not updated
by the various linux mkxxxx tools, and can be confusing. I would
rather keep
a simple "Linux" type, along with "Linux_swap" to help skipping swap
partition
in bootloaders (and installers)
Ben.
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