Re: extended paritions are evil.

Martin von Loewis (martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de)
Tue, 10 Feb 1998 00:29:23 +0100

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> If we change genhd.c to use numbers 5... for the extended
> (type 5) partions, and only number the disklabel etc. disks
> _after_ the type 5 partition is done, we could avoid this
> nasty situation (at no cost).

Well, yes. This would break all existing installations using
BSD or Sun partitions, too.

Martin
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