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Re: syquest syjet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Johansson)
Thu Aug 13 06:27:45 1998
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 12:40:27 -0100
From: Henrik Johansson <henrik@lcdata.se>
To: "Christopher E. Brown" <cbrown@denalics.net>
CC: Sandy Basickes <basic@Op.Net>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Hi!
You´re quite right about the partiton-id having nothing to do
with the filesystem You create on it. However many OS depend
on which id the partion have in oder to recognize it directly without
using any crude probing which could lead to confusion.
And to clearify a few things: id 82 is designated "Linux swap", and
id 83 is known as "Linux native".
What the "Extended Linux" (id 85) is really for, I do not know.
Maybe someone more involved in this, could enlighten me?
// Happy Hacking,
Henrik
Christopher E. Brown wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Sandy Basickes wrote:
>
> > dear people,
> >
> > i have a scsi syquest syjet attached to a bus logic bt 958.
> >
> > the syjet is recognized by the bt 958 and assigned to sdb
> >
> > i used cfdisk to partition the syjet disk. the partition was automatically
> > assigned to linux native (83). i tried to change it to ext2 (type 85).
>
> This is very wrong. Type 85 is a linux extended partition, it has
> nothing to do with the 2nd extended file system. You must create a linux
> native (type 82), and then use mke2fs to *create the file system* within
> that partition.
>
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