Dumb XFS / fdisk question.
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Mon Nov 8 21:55:15 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 13:18, Reg Clemens wrote:
> I just created an XFS file system in a partition for some VERY LARGE
> files, and I noticed that when I created the partition with fdisk,
> that there was no System/ID for XFS .
>
> Things seem to work with the wrong system Id, but is there an ID
> for XFS that just isnt compiled into the current fdisk?
Just use the Ext3 system ID (83). mkfs.xfs will use it for XFS
automatically.
# fdisk -l /dev/hde | grep hde
Disk /dev/hde: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
/dev/hde1 * 1 12161 97683201 83 Linux
# mount | grep hde
/dev/hde1 on /media type xfs (rw)
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