On Wednesday June 11, rabbit+list@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > The subject pretty much says it all - it obviously is not 0xFD, since there is > nothing to autodetect. Is there some best practice/semi-standard way of > marking a raid component partition as such? After reading the specs 0xDA > (non-fs data) comes to mind, but I figured I'll ask here. > I (almost) alway make arrays out of whole devices, not partitions, so I really never thought about this. I suspect 0xDA is safest and hence best. I wonder if this should be suggested in the mdadm man page anywhere.... anyone feel like creating a patch? NeilBrown -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html