Re: [OT] Disk sector size

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Cadieux
Anyone have an idea why Windows and Linux are using the same ID for their data partition? What's the point in having a much longer partition type ID if we're going to be overlapping anyway? That and...could we possibly find a worse way of storing it? Note that only the first three blocks are

Re: [OT] Disk sector size

2006-03-30 Thread joerg
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 11:17:00AM -0800, Ben Cadieux wrote: Anyone have an idea why Windows and Linux are using the same ID for their data partition? What are you meaning? Linux partitions normally have an ID of 131, Windows of 7 for NTFS or 11/12 (FAT). Extended partitions have an ID of 15,