Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:28:28 +0100 (MET) | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: Partition IDs in the New World TM |
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Andreas Dilger wrote:
> It would already be possible to auto-enable any devices with the swap > signature by doing the same sort of search mount(8) is doing for LABEL > and UUID.
That would be a very poor idea. Since different filesystems have signatures in different places, a partition may well have signatures for several filesystem types. Similarly, many filesystems leave the first sector alone - there may be some boot loader there - so if such a filesystem was created on what used to be a swap partition, also the swap signature will still be there.
More generally it is a bad idea to start a guessing game. That leads to systems that usually work, instead of systems that work.
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