From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 15:04:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8A0A106566C for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89E38FC1E for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsdlists@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so10122758rvf.43 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:04:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=KaPqX/8WFrKA6NGCEW60yLf3+KlGBGWHCmnqVES6vIw=; b=oSv1Qg9i5gSfkpHxYKeNoWyUa1lOxaqh+yr1xKeRHw3XIjBmAj13G1XoyiBVNDE1Os AbXS1RW7DkgkL0oSmxW24OTMLfvnIjaalzbzrBAphacDtJnmmR4v6I93rqgFFoVWGihc MwWTWaHVHMHj3FyW+8G0/uTyfyf+NWPsRkZU4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=GTuM9XANN9/Td7XL8zzn+2C/hz2JClFYgN/jFWdC3j9B13fHxrU2eT96h4OYFHffnq 2afnRVFmo72A5Uv2pv69ZeE3oxlG7pLEqlYFprgsn3z5MKisu6vnzsJh/FoJg6LVAtr/ vOwUuLlAfRya6ZZ19L3aFeMl+RBuv2hflLcTw= Received: by 10.140.172.19 with SMTP id u19mr14878110rve.133.1214318132555; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.248.15 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:35:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <54db43990806240735i193ced9cled5d75c6b56a85ba@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:35:32 -0400 From: "Bob Johnson" To: james@architectbook.com In-Reply-To: <20080624050741.1b34e4c3b93181cbb56b6df77bbedd57.bd77077b3d.wbe@email.secureserver.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080624050741.1b34e4c3b93181cbb56b6df77bbedd57.bd77077b3d.wbe@email.secureserver.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File Systems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:06 -0000 On 6/24/08, james@architectbook.com wrote: > > I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar cane > file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other > values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that > these should be registered with first or should I simply choose values > and add them in? > It would be dumb to add support for a new file system only for some > other partition utility to not recognize it and want to destroy it. > Please advise... If you are referring to the partition type (which indicates the file system type that is on an MS/IBM style disk partition), I don't think there is a central authority, but there is a very extensive list at: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html - Bob