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

Stephen Lee (nobody@nowhere.net)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:14:50 +0900

Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
> >> Hmm. Can you be more explicit? What support are you looking for
> >> 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.

BTW, my setup is a Mylex BT958 and IBM DCHS 9.1G.

> 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.

Stephen

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