==> Regarding Re: [Wlug] Partition Question; "James P. Gray" <gray_james@dwc.edu> adds: gray_james> Partition types are sometimes used by operating systems and gray_james> utilities to determine the type of a file system. The Linux gray_james> kernel likely uses another means of determining if a swap gray_james> partition is really swap. But it may simply assume that it is gray_james> swap. It does not assume a partition (or file) is swap; it checks for the swap header: if (!memcmp("SWAP-SPACE",swap_header->magic.magic,10)) swap_header_version = 1; else if (!memcmp("SWAPSPACE2",swap_header->magic.magic,10)) swap_header_version = 2; else { printk("Unable to find swap-space signature\n"); error = -EINVAL; goto bad_swap; } -Jeff