Dumb XFS / fdisk question.

[Florin Andrei]

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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