Re: fdisk minlabel support for Linux/AXP

Erik Troan (ewt@redhat.com)
Wed, 1 Nov 1995 21:54:47 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 1 Nov 1995, David Mosberger-Tang wrote:

> Great news! I was always hoping for such a utility---didn't know
> util-linux makes this wish come true...

It's a shame the the person who added it felt the need to keep the wonderfull
fdisk interface :(

> Oops, I think I picked 8 in the aboot sources just because it was
> unique relative to the filesystem numbers that I knew of. If BSD4.4
> (or whatever) uses it for MSDOS, we better pick something else. It
> will break current partition tables, but I think it's better now than
> later. Anybody knows how to register a filesystem number officially?

This is a good question. I'd like to see this resolved by the middle of
next week. We (Red Hat) are getting close to shipping an preliminary
Alpha distribution. I did a install today and only found a couple
of problems.

Erik

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