On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Yeah, Linux is quite good like that. Similar to the way most basic *nix > > > > programs don't care about a file's extension, mount checks the signature > > of > > the file system from the first sector (I believe) instead of blindly > > believing (or even checking) what it's labelled as. > > I can report that it is possible to mke2fs -j and install gentoo on a / > partition marked as swap but grub will refuse to play with partition so marked =0) > > > mick >
I guess depending on your point of view linux and grub's different policies about partition ids could either be a feature or a bug. Sam -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
