Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM

From: Andrew Clausen (clausen@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Jan 23 2001 - 12:08:50 EST


Bryan Henderson wrote:
> If you're going to complain about the way partition IDs are assigned,
> a valid complaint would be that "83" is defined as "Linux," instead
> of as something that actually indicates the kind of filesystem on the
> partition.

OK. s/Linux/Well behaved operationing systems that look for
file system signatures, rather than relying on stupid Partition IDs/

Andrew Clausen
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