On Tuesday 09 January 2007 00:36, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are there any platforms other than i386, AMD64, and IA64 that support the > > partition type number? > > Not sure. Is there not some magic number associated with different > partition types? I don't mean like you find on the standard PC hard > drive partition table. I mean by looking at the first few bytes of the > partition. Something similar to looking at the first few bytes of a > file to identify its MIME type.
Sure, there is a RAID superblock that can be used for such things. However doing so without a partition type is a little more risky. A common practice on PC hardware is to change the partition type to prevent the system boot process from automatically activating a RAID set. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
