Re: 7.1 '--type': valid values?

[Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs math uh edu>]

>>>>> "BKJ" == Brian K Jones <jonesy CS Princeton EDU> writes:

BKJ> How does one derive a valid value for 'part --type <x>' where x
BKJ> is supposed to be a numerical value?

XYX:temp2:~> s fdisk /dev/hde
[...]
   l   list known partition types
[...]
Command (m for help): l
 
 0  Empty           1b  Hidden Win95 FA 64  Novell Netware  bb  Boot Wizard hid
 1  FAT12           1c  Hidden Win95 FA 65  Novell Netware  c1  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 2  XENIX root      1e  Hidden Win95 FA 70  DiskSecure Mult c4  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 3  XENIX usr       24  NEC DOS         75  PC/IX           c6  DRDOS/sec (FAT-
 4  FAT16 <32M      39  Plan 9          80  Old Minix       c7  Syrinx
 5  Extended        3c  PartitionMagic  81  Minix / old Lin da  Non-FS data
 6  FAT16           40  Venix 80286     82  Linux swap      db  CP/M / CTOS / .
 7  HPFS/NTFS       41  PPC PReP Boot   83  Linux           de  Dell Utility
 8  AIX             42  SFS             84  OS/2 hidden C:  df  BootIt
 9  AIX bootable    4d  QNX4.x          85  Linux extended  e1  DOS access
 a  OS/2 Boot Manag 4e  QNX4.x 2nd part 86  NTFS volume set e3  DOS R/O
 b  Win95 FAT32     4f  QNX4.x 3rd part 87  NTFS volume set e4  SpeedStor
 c  Win95 FAT32 (LB 50  OnTrack DM      8e  Linux LVM       eb  BeOS fs
 e  Win95 FAT16 (LB 51  OnTrack DM6 Aux 93  Amoeba          ee  EFI GPT
 f  Win95 Ext'd (LB 52  CP/M            94  Amoeba BBT      ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/
10  OPUS            53  OnTrack DM6 Aux 9f  BSD/OS          f1  SpeedStor
11  Hidden FAT12    54  OnTrackDM6      a0  IBM Thinkpad hi f4  SpeedStor
12  Compaq diagnost 55  EZ-Drive        a5  BSD/386         f2  DOS secondary
14  Hidden FAT16 <3 56  Golden Bow      a6  OpenBSD         fd  Linux raid auto
16  Hidden FAT16    5c  Priam Edisk     a7  NeXTSTEP        fe  LANstep
17  Hidden HPFS/NTF 61  SpeedStor       b7  BSDI fs         ff  BBT
18  AST SmartSleep  63  GNU HURD or Sys b8  BSDI swap

Convert to decimal and you're done.

 - J<