Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Riccardo Torrini write > > >As far as I know it use an EXOR 0x10 to hide/unhide but fdisk doesn't > > >recognize 0x0B/0x0C fat32 when hidden (0x1B/0x1C) > > But as I said, this is rather marginal and I really don't feel > > it should go in unless this xor-0x10 convention is more widespread. > > "Hiding" partitions is a bug IMO, so it should have negative support. > This convention would break many OS's conventions. > E.g., NextSTEP | 0x10 gives BSDI.
If you think about it, if there is no one to claim it, it's reasonable to treat it as raw disk space, and try to find a partition on it. Really, there's no reason to care about partition type at all, since the contents will have the right magic numbers and the right data layout for a FATFS: you don't really care. That's really only meaningful if you decide the "hiding" that "magic.com" does doesn't apply to you; if it applies to you, then, in fact, it's a good thing that it's not recognized: the "magic.com" program has successfuly accomplished what it was written to accomplish -- so it's a non-problem. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
