Re: New partition type?

Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Sat, 8 May 1999 17:15:40 +0200 (MET DST)


> I would start by proposing a partition type number for it,
> my choice being 0xfc as 252 decimal
> doesn't appear to be in use.

> Andries: Can you confirm this?

Yes, I do not know of any system that uses type fc.

Concerning crash dumps and the like, this is a topic that comes up
regularly. You may want to read linux-kernel archive.
Probably the main objection to
1. Write the oops to a dedicated oops partition.
is that when the kernel crashes nothing can be trusted.
In such a situation it may be very unwise to start writing to disk.

Andries

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