Robert White posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2014 08:50:57 -0800 as excerpted: > To those reading along who don't already know. My explanation below is > factually inadequate or wrong in various places... > > The "type codes" as presented in the various EFI/GUID disk partitioning > tools as 0700, 8200, 8300, EF02, and so on are never written to disk as > such. They are short-hand values (chosen to be deliberately similar to > the MS-DOS partitioning type codes of 07, 82, 83, etc) to select > standardized GUIDs for the partition type field.
> I could have, and should have, been _way_ more clear, and/or less wrong. > 8-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table#Partition_type_GUIDs Thanks. While I guess we all end up eat humble pie occasionally, you handled it with more rather more grace that I often do, and by taking such a hard line myself I didn't make it as easy as I might have. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
