Re: FAQ bug

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

At Sat, 9 Feb 2002 08:22:36 GMT,
address@hidden wrote:
> Finding such stuff is a pain - why is there never a good man page
> with a GNU program?

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards_33.html#SEC33

> Maybe the authors of grub would like the world to be different,
> perhaps that would have been more convenient to grub, but reality
> is that the partition type does not indicate the filesystem.
> Not only does that fail for Hurd, it fails all over the place.
> For example, 0x83 is Linux (xiafs or ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs or ...).

IMHO, what wants to make the world different is Linux. Partition types
have been used as the FAQ entry says historically. Note that there is
no reliable specification on how to use partition types (besides the
"empty" type and those for extended partitions), so it just mentions
the historical usage (and Linux doesn't follow the ambiguous rule).

BTW, why that fails for Hurd? Be more specific, please.

> So, anything that assumes a connection between partition type
> and filesystem type is a bug, and in particular this FAQ entry
> is a bug.

Then, tell us where to see the specification.

Okuji