Re: ext2 fs not properly updated upon dismount.

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 16:30:31 +0200 (CEST)

On 16 Jun 1998, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:
> dwguest@win.tue.nl (Guest section DW) writes:
>
> > > I believe the partition type should be 82 (Linux swap).
> >
> > NOTHING in the kernel should depend on a partition type.
>
> I think it is reasonable to assume that fsck will get confused if a
> swap partition is marked as containing an ext2 file system.

Wrong. The partition types are used by partitioning programs only, and by some
installers (e.g. Debian).

As stated above (isn't that Andries?): NOTHING in the kernel should depend on a
partition type.

Besides, you can have support for different partitioning schemes
(msdos/rdb/bsd/...), which use different conventions for partition types.

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP}  http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium




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