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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:35:32 -0400
From:      "Bob Johnson" <fbsdlists@gmail.com>
To:        james@architectbook.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: File Systems
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On 6/24/08, james@architectbook.com <james@architectbook.com> wrote:
>
>    I would like to contribute my knowledge of several otherwise ar cane
>    file systems and wanted your take on modifying the FS types with other
>    values. Is there a central authority for all file system types that
>    these should be registered with first or should I simply choose values
>    and add them in?
>    It would be dumb to add support for a new file system only for some
>    other partition utility to not recognize it and want to destroy it.
>    Please advise...

If you are referring to the partition type (which indicates the file
system type that is on an MS/IBM style disk partition), I don't think
there is a central authority, but there is a very extensive list at:

http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html

- Bob



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