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

Stephen Lee (sl2001@usa.net)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 14:23:06 +0900

At 18:12 98/10/21 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>
>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.

0x0f is extended partition on OSR2, which it will access with extended BIOS
calls supporting >8G. FAT32 is 0x0b or 0x0c. You CAN create FAT16
partitions inside 0x0f type extended partitions.

>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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