Re: Shouldn't we use partition type 63 (GNU HURD)?

[William Leslie]

Wasn't the intention that the GNU partition type number be reserved for a future hurdish file system? What is the partition type number for, would that mean existing tools will refuse to work with it?

> On 18/08/2010 7:46 AM, "Samuel Thibault" <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> IIRC, the currently recommended way is to use partition type 83 (Linux)
> just because the old debian installer only recognizes those.  Is there
> any other reason which prevents us from using type 63 in the Debian
> installer?
>
> Samuel
>
>
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