swap partitions are type 83?

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> On Monday 01 June 2009 14:09:35 James Laska wrote:
>> On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 01:57 -0500, Allen Kistler wrote:
>>> It's really late to notice this, I know, but F11 anaconda is creating
>>> swap partitions as type 83 instead of as type 82.
>>>
>>> I know F11 has discarded the concept that partitions must begin and end
>>> on cylinder boundaries, but has it also discarded the concept that swaps
>>> are a separate partition type from file partitions?
>>>
>>> BZ 503457
>> Nice catch!  I've confirmed the behavioral change between F10 and F11
>> and added some data to the bug report.
> 
> It may be a change between F10 and F11 but it really matter.  IIRC, for a 
> number of releases now, Fedora Linux looks at the "signature" for a swap file 
> and ignores the 82/83 type.
> 
> Yes, it is a change but ... so what?
> 
There are a number of tools which generate information based on partition type, 
it certainly doesn't have an obvious benefit to make the use as swap less 
visible. I hate to say this, but Fedora is not the only Linux distribution 
people might want to run as dual boot, anything which might cause problems 
probably will (Murphy).

Is there a benefit I miss to disguising the use as swap?

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