Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Jan 2001 16:35:24 -0200 | From | Andrew Clausen <> | Subject | Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM |
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Bryan Henderson wrote: > Allow me to reword to what you probably meant: Have a partition > ID that means "generic partition - check signatures within for > details." (And then get people who develop file systems for use > with Linux, at least, to have a policy of always using that).
OK.
> Incidentally, I just realized that the common name "partition ID" > for this value is quite a misnomer. As far as I know, it has > never identified the partition, but rather described its contents.
Yes, "partition type ID" is better.
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