recent boot0 changes dropped a partition type?
Aragon Gouveia
aragon at phat.za.net
Sun Jun 28 19:18:10 UTC 2009
Hi,
Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> yes it was removed to save space, i am more than happy to replace 0xb
> with 0xc if the latter turns out to be more popular.
>
> So far we have the following (all the rest is basically commented
> out because we need space for other stuff):
>
> 131 linux
> 165 FreeBSD
> 166 [Open]BSD
> 169 [Net]BSD
> 6 Win [FAT16 >= 32MB]
> 7 Win [NTFS]
> 11 Win [FAT32]
>
> Suggestions for replacements are welcome
From my bit of research now, it looks like types 6 and 11 should be
changed. Their modern equivalents are 0xE and 0xC respectively. I
think the only Redmond systems that still use 0x6 and 0xB pre-date
Windows XP. I'm basing my opinions on personal experience and:
http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table
The only caveat I see is:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151414
But with limited space we probably should just decide to not worry about
anything older than Windows XP...
Thanks,
Aragon
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