Re: [PATCH] partitions/msdos.c

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 
> The default fdisk will assign type 83 to a newly created partition.

Ok. Is that a "it has done so for the last 5 years" thing? 

> (About type 0: DOS has used type 0 as definition of unused. It is not
> bad if Linux uses DOS-conventions for a DOS-type partition table.)

Agreed. At the same time, I could well imagine that some people might use 
such a type exactly to make DOS ignore it (but I assume the same is true 
of the regular 0x83 type too, so maybe I'm just being difficult).

There's certainly a good argument for fixing a known problem (Uwe) and a 
small enough risk of it breaking anything else.

		Linus
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