Re: parted 1.6.6 with amiga partitioning support.

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:28:35AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > Finally, i have a question concerning the partition DosType of
> > > partitions of the following filesystems :
> > > 
> > >   - ext3 (i used LNX\1)
> > >   - fat16
> > >   - fat32
> > >   - hfs (MAC\0 ?)
> > >   - jfs
> > >   - ntfs
> > >   - reiserfs
> > >   - sun-ufs
> > >   - hp-ufs
> > >   - xfs
> > > 
> > > Or maybe i could use one of the UNI\x for some of them, or some kind of
> > > RSV\0 (for reserved) dostype.
> > > 
> > > What is currently in use for these ?
> > 
> > Since AmigaOS doesn't care[*], you can use whatever you want. E.g. 0x45585433
> > (EXT3 in HEX ASCII) for ext3.
> 
> But then, why not use ext2 instead of lnx0 for ext2 ?

I do use 0x4558542 for ext2.

> > [*] AFAIK the only exception is that AmigaOS refuses to boot from a partition
> >     if it has a DosType for which it has no file system driver (either in ROM
> >     or in the RDB) and it has an `unknown' type (not 100% sure about that one,
> >     probably it can boot from UNI\x). So if you want to put the Lilo boot block
> >     on an ext2 partition, you need to use a fake DosType, or have put an
> >     AmigaOS ext2 driver in the RDB.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense. Do you know of a link to such an ext2 driver ?

There used to be an ext2 filesystem for AmigaOS. Don't know whether it still
exists.

> BTW, do you think it is worth to implement affs and co awareness in mkfs/fsck ?

You mean code to detect affs and launch mkaffs/affsck instead? If these tools
do exist and it's not much work, I'd say yes.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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