Re: [Sheflug] re: Quiet cron

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Will Newton writes:
 > On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Craig Andrews wrote:
 > 
 > > Why a primary _DOS_ partition? shouldn't just a primary partition set to type 'linux' (82, IIRCWIPC)?
 > 
 > Parted (GNU Linux tool) only has the folowing options:
 > 
 > (parted) help mklabel
 >   mklabel LABEL-TYPE            create a new disklabel (partition table)
 > 
 >         LABEL-TYPE is one of: bsd, mac, pc98, msdos, loop
 > 
 > I'm not using mac, not using pc98, it's certainly not loop. BSD uses
 > slices AFAIK, so, er, that leaves msdos? The actual partition is marked
 > Linux but the partition table is DOS.

This sounds about right.

I haven't used Parted - only fdisk.
I'm sure it's MSDOS partition *tables* with the partition IDs changed.

Linux (Ext2 and ReiserFS both use 83) swap is 82.

Baz.

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