Hi,
I am not sure the current algorithm for enumerating 3rd party
partitions is perfect. It makes it very hard to switch between
booting kernels with and without support for those partitions. E.g. I have
2.2.12 from Red Hat 6.1 that has no support for UnixWare and FreeBSD
partitions and now use 2.3.40-pre1 with support for those two and all my
normal (i.e. Linux ext2) partitions get shifted around. That;s not good.
To make it clear, have a look at these:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3467 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 9 72261 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 10 264 2048287+ a5 BSD/386
/dev/hda3 * 265 902 5124735 63 GNU HURD or SysV
/dev/hda4 903 3467 20603362+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 903 968 530113+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 969 1733 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1734 2116 3076416 6 FAT16
/dev/hda8 2117 3467 10851876 83 Linux
# grep hda /proc/partitions
3 0 27852048 hda
3 1 72261 hda1
3 2 2048287 hda2
3 3 5124735 hda3
3 4 1 hda4
3 5 4795402 hda5
3 6 208845 hda6
3 7 17 hda7
3 8 8015 hda8
3 9 24097 hda9
3 10 8032 hda10
3 11 530113 hda11
3 12 6144831 hda12
3 13 3076416 hda13
3 14 10851876 hda14
3 15 1843200 hda15
3 16 205087 hda16
see, my rootfs switched from /dev/hda6 to /dev/hda12.
Regards,
Tigran.
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