Aragon Gouveia wrote: > Hi, > > Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> yes it was removed to save space, i am more than happy to replace 0xb >> with 0xc if the latter turns out to be more popular. >> >> So far we have the following (all the rest is basically commented >> out because we need space for other stuff): >> >> 131 linux >> 165 FreeBSD >> 166 [Open]BSD >> 169 [Net]BSD >> 6 Win [FAT16 >= 32MB] >> 7 Win [NTFS] >> 11 Win [FAT32] >> >> Suggestions for replacements are welcome > > From my bit of research now, it looks like types 6 and 11 should be > changed. Their modern equivalents are 0xE and 0xC respectively. I > think the only Redmond systems that still use 0x6 and 0xB pre-date > Windows XP. I'm basing my opinions on personal experience and: > > http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table > > The only caveat I see is: > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/151414 > > But with limited space we probably should just decide to not worry > about anything older than Windows XP... > > > Thanks, > Aragon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" Just wanted to chime in and say that I currently happily dual boot between FreeBSD 7.2 and Windows 2000, and would vote for continuing to be able to do so. -BorisReceived on Mon Jun 29 2009 - 03:45:31 UTC
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