Talk:Partition type

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This page maybe should maybe be renamed to "List of Partition Types" or similar. 20:47, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

Actually, it is only an "List of MBR Partition Types", and there are several other possible partitionning schemes around (GPT, RDB, GEM...). So either we should rename it to make it obvious it lists MBR types, or add columns with IDs for these other partitioning schemes types. Mmu man (talk) 15:56, 8 January 2011 (UTC)Reply

Move to "List of MBR Partition Types" then. --M4gnum0n (talk) 19:08, 16 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

From 9 October 2006, when this page was created, until 23 April 2010, this page was simply a redirect to Disk partitioning. Since April, the table of partition types has been here- just a table. I feel this content should be added as a new section on the Master boot record article, at least until there is more content besides the table to justify its own page. Then revert this page to the Disk partitioning redirect it's been for most of its life. 64.128.111.166 (talk) 19:28, 17 February 2011 (UTC)Reply

Agree on that, too. Which of the two, then? Move or merge? Awaiting other opinions. --M4gnum0n (talk) 23:12, 21 March 2011 (UTC)Reply

I think it makes more sense to have it on its own page, as "MBR Partition Types". This kind of a list should not be part of the main Master Boot Record article. For a while after the move we can have this page redirect to MBR Partition Types until there is a generic "Partition Types" page.

--AbstractConcept (talk) 18:50, 6 March 2013 (UTC)Reply

For anyone else who is looking, it is here: libparted/labels/dos.c (line 61). Those constants are converted into a set of booleans stored in a DosPartitionData struct by the raw_part_parse function, which then get converted into public a public enum (_PedPartitionFlag, i.e. PED_PARTITION_*) with the msdos_partition_{set_flag,get_flag,is_flag_available} functions. That enum is defined in include/parted/disk.in.h (line 57) and the enum values are mapped to displayed strings in libparted/disk.c (line 2362) by the ped_partition_flag_get_name function. If someone can think of a better place to put the above information, please copy it (or move it, and leave a soft redirect). To facilitate this, I hereby place the above text under CC0 1.0. JesseW, the juggling janitor 03:10, 15 June 2015 (UTC)

What is this OS? I cannot find any mention of this operating system online. UntrustWasTaken (talk) 16:44, 16 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Try here. Guy Harris (talk) 07:07, 18 June 2023 (UTC)Reply

Just what I was looking for, thanks! UntrustWasTaken (talk) 19:00, 18 June 2023 (UTC)Reply