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

[David Greaves <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

I thought that.
But then I asked why?

Couldn't come up with a decent reason.

non-fs seems to cover everything.

David


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