Re: [PATCH] bsd disklabel detection

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 06:12:34 EST


Thanks for the patch!
I wondered about

> -#define BSDI_PARTITION 0xb7 /* BSDI Partition ID */
> +#define BSDI_PARTITION 0x9f /* BSDI Partition ID */

You write:

> The first patch is fairly trivial: it changes the value for the unused
> BSDI_PARTITION flag (which was wrong: I have BSDI 2.1 and 4.1 here, and
> both of them failed to see their own partitions after changing their flag
> to 0xb7).

but the use of 0xb7 and 0xb8 for BSDI seems well established.
Is going to 0x9f a recent change? Or are these different systems?
Does the BSDI fdisk have a list of types built-in?

For the time being I suppose we should accept both 0xb7 and 0x9f.

Andries

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