On Monday 30 March 2009 07:22:19 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Andrew McGill wrote: > > 1 (and 2-4) are valid partition types, but they used infrequently, > > especially in scripts. > > 4, specifically, is quite common. As the last partition, being partition 4? > -hpa We can hack the fdisk 't'ype command to work both ways, except for the case where all of these apply: * there is only one partition at the time * it is therefore a primary partition (1 to 4) * the partition type is the same as the partition number That means a backward incompatibility for the following cases only: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System hda1 1 4096 32901088+ 1 FAT12 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System hda2 22 4096 32901088+ 2 XENIX root Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System hda3 333 4096 32901088+ 3 XENIX usr Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System hda4 444 4096 32901088+ 4 FAT16 <32M If you set up something like that in a script, are you not asking for trouble? &:-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
