[3537] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Another guess about Partition Magic choking on sfdisk-created
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Sep 26 11:14:20 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:09:41 -0400
Message-Id: <200209261509.LAA14001@pothole.mit.edu>
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: amu@alum.MIT.EDU
CC: wdc@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: <udlptv0esb9.fsf@multics.mit.edu> (amu@alum.mit.edu)
>> 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.
I'm not so sure, given that we've got two install options, both of which
use identical mkswap and mkfs invocations, but one of which uses fdisk
(this works with PM), and the other of which uses sfdisk (this doesn't
work with PM).
