[Tfug] Weird partition type

[Michael Stenner]

On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 11:34:33AM -0700, Benjamin Krein wrote:
> I just bought a new HP Pavilion dv1000 series laptop that has their
> nifty QuickPlay feature (mini linux distro that boots in ~15 seconds
> soley for playing DVD's & MP3s).  QuickPlay resides in a ~200MB
> partition on my disk that is "Type 88 Plaintext" (according to cfdisk).
> I'd like to mount it in Linux and poke around for curiousity sake.  How
> does one go about mounting a partition of this type?  I've never heard
> of it before and Google isn't giving me much info.

I'm betting "Type 88 Plaintext" is equivalent to the program 'file'
output of "data".  They might just be doing everything themselves.
That is, it might not be a filesystem, but simply a data file.  I'd
try a "file -s" on it and see what happens.  

					-Michael
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