From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 28 19:18:10 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 844C0106564A for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aragon@phat.za.net) Received: from mail.geek.sh (decoder.geek.sh [196.36.198.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239BE8FC14 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:18:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aragon@phat.za.net) Received: from fuzz.geek.sh (unknown [196.209.243.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.geek.sh (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A96E03A465; Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:18:08 +0200 (SAST) Message-ID: <4A47C1DF.2020908@phat.za.net> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:17:51 +0200 From: Aragon Gouveia User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090628) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Luigi Rizzo References: <4A4751ED.8020002@phat.za.net> <20090628181105.GA98246@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20090628181105.GA98246@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 19:18:10 -0000 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... Thanks, Aragon