Subject: Re: RFC: Changing default partition type for linux/ppc
From: Charles Stevenson (csteven@terraplex.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2000 - 12:15:11 MDT
agreed.
:-)
charles
On Sun, 09 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> >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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