> This doesn't seem like a bad idea. :)  I noticed that OpenBSD changed
> theirs to 0xa6 as well.  Also, it seems that they increased the default
> # of partitions you can have, which I find really nice.

Which reminds me - ISTR hearing something about the possibility of
introducing 16-partition disklabels in NetBSD, maybe on port-i386, a few
months ago. Does anybody know if any progress has been made in this
direction? This would be *really* *really* cool.

-- 
Scott Telford                              "I don't have much to say about
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre         Linux except to wonder why you
University of Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK.       aren't using FreeBSD instead."
<s.telford@ed.ac.uk> (+44 131 650 5978)     - Kaleb S Keithley, Xaw3d README