H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: >> On Thursday July 3, dledford@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>> On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 15:02 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>>> Why 0xDA? >>>> >>>> As far as I know, the closest thing there is to a registry is the >>>> list that aeb at least used to maintain. >> >> Yes. http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html >> lists 0xDA as >> >> da Non-FS Data >> >> Added on request of John Hardin (johnh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx). >> >> which is the closest we could come to "you won't want to look at >> or do anything to this partition". >> > > But that's not really what it is, either. The best would be to pick a > new partition identifier entirely. I thought that. But then I asked why? Couldn't come up with a decent reason. non-fs seems to cover everything. David -- 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
