Andrew McGill wrote: > 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? No, as a type. 1 (FAT12) and 4 (small FAT16) are rather common. > > 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 > hda4 444 4096 32901088+ 4 FAT16 <32M > > If you set up something like that in a script, are you not asking for trouble? > Hardly. Especially 4 is a common type to be scripted. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
