Re: Proper partition type for components with V1.x superblocks?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Neil Brown wrote:
> On Thursday July 3, dledford@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > > Why 0xDA?
> > >
> > > As far as I know, the closest thing there is to a registry is the list 
> > > that aeb at least used to maintain.
>
> Yes. 
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
> lists 0xDA as
>
>     da Non-FS Data
>
>         Added on request of John Hardin (johnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
>
> which is the closest we could come to "you won't want to look at
> or do anything to this partition".

But that's not really what it is, either.  The best would be to pick a 
new partition identifier entirely.

	-hpa
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