Subject: Re: PC partition types
To: Cisco Lopez-Fresquet <cisco@src.honeywell.com>
From: Torsten Duwe (Emacs) <Torsten.Duwe@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/27/1995 20:44:13
>>>>> "MH" == Martin Husemann <martin@laurin.teuto.de> writes:
    MH> Not realy a NetBSD-specific question, but I need this for an improved
    MH> installation process for NetBSD: could anybody point me to (or send
    MH> via private email) a list of partition type codes used in the master
    MH> boot record?

    MH> I know three: 1 - 6 DOS 100,101 Novell NetWare 165 NetBSD but there
    MH> obviously are a lot more out there.

>>>>> "Cisco" == Cisco Lopez-Fresquet <cisco@src.honeywell.com> writes:
    Cisco> IF you use pfdisk, the 'i' option will give you a list of known
    Cisco> partition types.


Just check out src/sbin/fdisk/fdisk.c, line 123ff. 0x82 is used by
Solaris/intel as well, but Linux needs a magic to swap to partitions ;-)

	Torsten