Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 18:22:34 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: behanna@zbzoom.net Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-Stable) Subject: Re: Boot ManagerQuestions Message-ID: <200101020222.SAA31742@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101011841370.10066-100000@browning.pennasoft.com> from Chris BeHanna at "Jan 1, 2001 06:43:48 pm"
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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2001, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 doug@safeport.com wrote: > > > > > > > [...snip of questions I leave for others...] > > > > > > > > Does anyone know the MS/IBM approved codes for the various types > > > > > > > > 6 = DOS FAT16 > > > > ? = DOS FAT32 > > > > > > FAT32 and FAT16 are both 6. > > > > Wrong. 4 is DOS FAT 16 < 32mb > > 6 is DOS FAT 16 > 32mb > > 11 is DOS/Win9X FAT32 > > 12 is DOS/Win9X FAT32 LBA (rarely actually used) > > When I partitioned the drive on the box that I'm using at this > very minute, I gave type 6 to my DOS partitions. Those partitions > currently house FAT32 filesystems. Your sure it still is type 6 after your ran fat32 format??? > IOW, in practice, I doubt it matters if you assign 6 or 11 to a > DOS partition. I am not sure on that, I've never seen a type 6 fat32, but then I have never purposefully tried to create one either. Win9x OSr2 and later fdisk creates them as type 11 if you answer yes to the Enable large disk question, if they are larger than some magic number, otherwise it just creates type 6 partitions. The magic size is either 504MB or 2G, can't recall right now. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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