On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:30:00PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Ignatios Souvatzis writes:
> > On Wed, Apr 28, 1999 at 08:06:37PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
> > 
> > >  I was never able to mount ext2 partitions.
> > 
> > Is there any standard DOSTYPE Linux uses to mark ext2fs partitions in the
> > RDB?
>  
>   0x4C4E5800 (LNX\0) - for Linux native partitions (ie. ext2).

what others? does it mark minix the same way?

>   0x53575000 (SWP\0) - for swap space.
> 

Hm, yes. if this was recognized, it could be added as swap partition. 

You know what? as adding any partition to the recognized set will shift
BSD partition letters, I only want to make _one_ change.

If changing the mapping at all, we should add all partitions we might ever
want to know about (I remember somebody mentionds "MSDx", and I asked wether
this was enforced by the filesystem software he uses, but dont remember
having consciously read the answer), think about multiple swap partitions
per drive, etc.

And have a backward compatibility option.

I'm afraid its a bit late for 1.4. 
We might want to put it in for 1.4.1, though, and provide a patch set for
knowledgable people.

Does this sound acceptable?
	Ignatios