From: df@eyrie.demon.co.uk (Derek Fawcus) Subject: Re: Ext FS partition type? Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1993 22:22:56 +0000
In article <1993Feb22.213559.186@pandora.demon.co.uk> martin@pandora.demon.co.uk (Martin White) writes:
> dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci) writes:
> : Does the extended FS also use partition type 81?
> : Thought it was 83, but that does not work for me.
>
> The extfs uses type 83, but I wonder if it makes any difference at all.
> I once accidently set up a partition as type 81, and then did a mkefs on it,
> and all appeared to work ok!
None of the minix, ext, or ext II file systems require a special partition
type (anything other than zero is acceptable *). I don't know about xia,
but I'd be supprised if it was different,
DF
(* DRDOS will ignore the top bit of the partition ID, so 0x81 looks like 1)
-- Derek Fawcus (G7FVS) df@eyrie.demon.co.uk