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From: chasm@attctc.Dallas.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Does MINIX have its own partition code?
Summary: one more code
Message-ID: <10161@attctc.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 12 Nov 89 23:23:53 GMT
References: <5820009@hpcupt1.HP.COM> <4474@ast.cs.vu.nl> <24614@sequent.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <24614@sequent.UUCP>, norsk@sequent.UUCP (Doug Thompson) writes:
 > I have found the following in my past lives on which OS's use which 
 > SYSID in the partition table:
 > 
 > 	HEX
 > 	00		Empty Partition Entry
 > 	01		DOS 12-Bit FAT
 > 	02		XENIX File System
 > 	03		Old XENIX /usr File System, don't think used anymore
 > 	04		DOS 16-Bit FAT
 > 	05		DOS 3.3 Extended Partiton containing Extended Volumes
 > 	06		DOS Large File System (512b sectors, ~32-bit addresses)
 > 	07		don't know
 > 	08		AIX, from above
 >
 > 	52		CPM - I belive, but not sure	

      0x63              386/ix (Unix V.3.2) Version 2.0.1, at least

 > Numbers 1 thru 6 were IBM and MicroSoft. I think it is mostly defacto.
 > My suggestion is to select some number 'far enough' out to not colide
 > with future values.

I picked 25 decimal (0x19) as being small enough to not be hit by other
"way out" number pickers, and large enough as to miss IBM's list.

Perhaps 07 is the new OS/2 file system (the BSD version of OS/2 ;^).  You
know, with long file names, contiguous files, etc.!

 > Douglas Thompson		UUCP: ..{tektronix,ogcvax,uunet}!sequent!norsk
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Charles
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