Re: re. multiple ext2fs partitions.

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
13 Aug 1997 06:44:17 GMT

Followup to: <m0wyRRx-0005FjC@lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk>
By author: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> If you enable BSD disklabel support in your compile you can use BSD
> disklabels. Linux can't currently nest them however that would be easy
> to add if someone had a really perverse need for it, as would be pinching
> a new partition type for "recursive dos partitioning".
>

Well, Linux already treats partitions with type 0x85 the same as
partitions with 0x05 (extended DOS), except of course that 0x85 is
opaque to DOS and other lesser operating systems...

-hpa

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