On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:48:55AM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I had to search the sources to realise the fat filesystem type is called
> > MSDOS. Maybe at least a header can be mentioned in disklabel(8)?
>
> Sorry, everyone knows it is called the MSDOS filesystem. 'FAT' is the new
> silly name.
>
> I don't see much value in pointing people from our manual pages to .h files.
>
There are some useful hints shown by setpid in fdisk:
fdisk: 1> setpid 0
Starting Ending LBA Info:
#: id C H S - C H S [ start:
size ]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0:
0 ] unused
Partition id ('0' to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help) ?
Choose from the following Partition id values:
00 unused 20 Willowsoft 66 NetWare 386 A9
NetBSD
01 DOS FAT-12 24 NEC DOS 67 Novell AB
MacOS X boot
02 XENIX / 27 Win Recovery 68 Novell AF
MacOS X HFS+
03 XENIX /usr 38 Theos 69 Novell B7
BSDI filesy*
04 DOS FAT-16 39 Plan 9 70 DiskSecure B8
BSDI swap
05 Extended DOS 40 VENIX 286 75 PCIX BF
Solaris
06 DOS > 32MB 41 Lin/Minux DR 80 Minix (old) C0
CTOS
07 NTFS 42 LinuxSwap DR 81 Minix (new) C1
DRDOSs FAT12
08 AIX fs 43 Linux DR 82 Linux swap C4
DRDOSs < 32M
09 AIX/Coherent 4D QNX 4.2 Pri 83 Linux files* C6
DRDOSs >=32M
0A OS/2 Bootmgr 4E QNX 4.2 Sec 84 OS/2 hidden C7
HPFS Disbled
0B Win95 FAT-32 4F QNX 4.2 Ter 85 Linux ext. DB
CPM/C.DOS/C*
0C Win95 FAT32L 50 DM 86 NT FAT VS DE
Dell Maint
0E DOS FAT-16 51 DM 87 NTFS VS E1
SpeedStor
0F Extended LBA 52 CP/M or SysV 8E Linux LVM E3
SpeedStor
10 OPUS 53 DM 93 Amoeba FS E4
SpeedStor
11 OS/2 hidden 54 Ontrack 94 Amoeba BBT EB
BeOS/i386
12 Compaq Diag. 55 EZ-Drive 99 Mylex EE
EFI GPT
14 OS/2 hidden 56 Golden Bow 9F BSDI EF
EFI Sys
16 OS/2 hidden 5C Priam A0 NotebookSave F1
SpeedStor
17 OS/2 hidden 61 SpeedStor A5 FreeBSD F2
DOS 3.3+ Sec
18 AST swap 63 ISC, HURD, * A6 OpenBSD F4
SpeedStor
19 Willowtech 64 NetWare 2.xx A7 NEXTSTEP FF
Xenix BBT
1C ThinkPad Rec 65 NetWare 3.xx A8 MacOS X
Partition id ('0' to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help)
abort
'abort' is not a valid number.
Partition id ('0' to disable) [0 - FF]: [0] (? for help) 0
fdisk: 1> abort