Partition IDs in the New World TM

Partition IDs are not necessary. Linux works fine when you have no partition table at all, and have a parttab file in an initrd disk telling the kernel where the partitions are supposed to be.

No kernel changes required. Today you do not need partition IDs. Today you can dynamically add and delete partitions, without involving anything like a partition table.

But people use various schemes to partition their disks, mainly because also other operating systems like DOS or MacOS use the same disks. In such a situation it is useful to agree with the other OS on where the partitions are.

Andries
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On a system with nothing but linux installed does partitioning slow things down?

I have...

/dev/hda1     93309     27520     60972  32% /
/dev/hda3   2885812   1042304   1696916  39% /usr
/dev/hda5   4806904   1989612   2573108  44% /home
/dev/hda6   4806904    913044   3649676  21% /var
/dev/hda7   4806904   1345696   3217024  30% /home/ftp
/dev/hda8   4806904   2170136   2392584  48%
/home/ftp/debian/dists/potato
/dev/hda9   4806904   1352776   3209944  30%
/home/ftp/debian/dists/woody
/dev/hda10  2284880    904832   1263980  42% /home/ftp/debian/pool
/dev/hdb1   3844584    721632   2927656  20% /home/shared
/dev/hdb2   3844616      4092   3645224   1% /home/ftp/debian/dists/sid

plus hdb3 not yet mounted anywhere
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