Re: 9G disk, >4 partitions, and lose95

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Sat, 24 Oct 1998 07:13:08 -0400 (EDT)

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Stephen Lee wrote:

>> >> that is not there already?
>> >When lose95's fdisk makes a big extended partition be "type 0xf",
>>
>> Windows 95's "big extended partition" that you speak of is not an
>> extended partition. An "extended" partition is not an
>> OS-specific partition with a filesystem, it is an OS independant
>> logical partitioning scheme. Windows 95's FDISK starts up
>> offering "Large Disk Support", if you choose "yes" to this, then
>> any partitions or logical drives that you create in an
>> extended partition with Windows 95's FDISK will be of type FAT32
>> which is 0x0f.
>
>This is incorrect. FAT32 is 0xc (LBA) or 0xb according to one message
>earlier in this thread. 0xf is an extended partition that OSR2 will
>access with the extended BIOS call (that support >8G addressing). You CAN
>create FAT16 partitions in such an extended partition.
>
>With partition type 0x5, OSR2 will not use the extended BIOS call even if
>it is available, thus it can't cross 8G.

Ok, I wasn't aware of that.

>> To mount these drives in Linux, you use type "ext2" for the ext2
>> partitions, and "vfat" for the fat32 partitions.
>
>VFAT is FAT16+Long filename. FAT32 is a different filesystem.

I am aware of that, however to mount *either* filesystem in Linux
you mount with:

mount /dev/whatever /wherever -t vfat

FAT32 support is built into the vfat module.

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