Re: ext2fs in a BSD slice

[Jochen Hoenicke]

Hello Cedric,

On Dec 18, Cedric Ware wrote:
> I have installed FreeBSD (4.2-RELEASE) and Linux (Debian 2.2r2) in
> the same BSD slice, and I am using GRUB to boot them.  However, each
> of them uses its native filesystem (ufs/ffs and ext2fs respectively)
> and I noticed that GRUB would only mount the ext2 subpartition if it
> was marked as "other".
> 
> Although FreeBSD did not assign a special code to ext2 subpartitions,
> both NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to agree on 17 for that use.  I propose
> the following patch, inspired from /usr/include/sys/disklabel.h in
> Net and Open.

Thanks for your report.  Your patch looks good.  I applied it and
commited it to the CVS repository.

  Jochen