On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:07:12AM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > It's not always possible on other architectures. What do you do on a platform > that supports the BSD disk label and has no type number? > > Are there any platforms other than i386, AMD64, and IA64 that support the > partition type number? > Not sure. Is there not some magic number associated with different partition types? I don't mean like you find on the standard PC hard drive partition table. I mean by looking at the first few bytes of the partition. Something similar to looking at the first few bytes of a file to identify its MIME type. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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