From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 28 19:41:47 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44CB61065676 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:41:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED90D8FC19 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:41:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.local (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by pooker.samsco.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n5SJKgBN041845; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:42 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4A47C28A.2030000@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:20:42 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080313 SeaMonkey/1.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aragon Gouveia References: <4A4751ED.8020002@phat.za.net> <20090628181105.GA98246@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <4A47C1DF.2020908@phat.za.net> In-Reply-To: <4A47C1DF.2020908@phat.za.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.5 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: Luigi Rizzo , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:41:47 -0000 Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Hi, > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> yes it was removed to save space, i am more than happy to replace 0xb >> with 0xc if the latter turns out to be more popular. >> >> So far we have the following (all the rest is basically commented >> out because we need space for other stuff): >> >> 131 linux >> 165 FreeBSD >> 166 [Open]BSD >> 169 [Net]BSD >> 6 Win [FAT16 >= 32MB] >> 7 Win [NTFS] >> 11 Win [FAT32] >> >> Suggestions for replacements are welcome > > From my bit of research now, it looks like types 6 and 11 should be > changed. Their modern equivalents are 0xE and 0xC respectively. I > think the only Redmond systems that still use 0x6 and 0xB pre-date > Windows XP. I'm basing my opinions on personal experience and: > > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table > > The only caveat I see is: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151414 > > But with limited space we probably should just decide to not worry about > anything older than Windows XP... How about not worrying about NetBSD or OpenBSD? How many people typically multi-boot OpenBSD? Scott