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Re: [Fwd: lilo-xfs patch]

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Subject: Re: [Fwd: lilo-xfs patch]
From: Derek James Witt <djw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 25 Mar 2002 16:52:25 -0600
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Hi, Eric. Thanks for the suggestion. That made it cleaner. Here's the
new patch.

On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 15:53, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> hi Derek - 
> 
> Rather than parsing /etc/mtab, it would probably be better to look for
> "XFSB" in the first 4 bytes of the target partition - that way you
> _know_ the target has (or has had....) an xfs filesystem on it.
> 
> -Eric
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
> sandeen@xxxxxxx   SGI, Inc.
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