Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On Monday 01 June 2009 14:09:35 James Laska wrote:
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 01:57 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote:
It's really late to notice this, I know, but F11 anaconda is creating
swap partitions as type 83 instead of as type 82.
I know F11 has discarded the concept that partitions must begin and end
on cylinder boundaries, but has it also discarded the concept that swaps
are a separate partition type from file partitions?
BZ 503457
Nice catch! I've confirmed the behavioral change between F10 and F11
and added some data to the bug report.
It may be a change between F10 and F11 but it really matter. IIRC, for a
number of releases now, Fedora Linux looks at the "signature" for a swap file
and ignores the 82/83 type.
Yes, it is a change but ... so what?
There are a number of tools which generate information based on partition type,
it certainly doesn't have an obvious benefit to make the use as swap less
visible. I hate to say this, but Fedora is not the only Linux distribution
people might want to run as dual boot, anything which might cause problems
probably will (Murphy).
Is there a benefit I miss to disguising the use as swap?
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