[3536] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Another guess about Partition Magic choking on sfdisk-created
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Thu Sep 26 10:31:09 2002
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
Cc: wdc@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.mit.edu (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 26 Sep 2002 10:31:06 -0400
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<amb@MIT.EDU> (andrew m. boardman) writes:
> I don't know; I suspect that if we could translate "serial numbers" to
> whatever the rest of the world calls it, the answer would end up being
> "yes". (I've never heard of partition serial numbers, anyway.)
Given the DOS/Windows/OS/2-centric comment about drive letters, I
rather suspect they are talking about serial numbers stored within
top-level filesystem metadata; I know FAT has these, and bet HPFS and
NTFS do as well. (OTOH, modern ext2/ext3 filesystems have UUIDs which
fill the same role. That still leaves Linux swap partitions, of
course, but attempting to give them letters is truly absurd.)
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