Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:26:12 -0800 | From | "Matt D. Robinson" <> | Subject | Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM |
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Andreas Dilger wrote: > > H. Peter Anvin writes: > > We have: > > > > 0x82 - Linux swap > > 0x83 - Linux filesystem > > 0x85 - Linux extended partition (yes, this one does matter!) > > > > There seems to be some value in having a different value for swap. It > > lets an automatic program find a partition that does not contain data. > > What would be wrong with changing the kernel to skip the first page of > swap, and allowing us to put a signature there? This would be really > useful for systems that mount ext2 filesystems by LABEL or UUID. With > the exception of swap, you currently don't need to care about what disk > a filesystem is on. Of course, LVM also fixes this, but not everyone > runs LVM.
LKCD starts writing a crash dump after the first page of the swap partition (if that is used as the dump partition), so I'd hate to see this implemented.
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