Re: Partition type 0x6 ?

[Wolfgang "Jährling" <wolfgang@pro-linux.de>]

Hi! :-)

John Tobey wrote:
> > But why do Grub and
> > Hurd say it's FAT16? (the Linux which I boot from floppy can
> > mount it as ext2)
> 
> Apparently the linux `mount' command ignores the partition type code.
> (This is probably good, IMO.)

I think I share your opinion ;-)

> Your partition table indicates FAT16,
> but the partition actually contains an ext2 filesystem.  You can
> change the partition table in fdisk without deleting the partition or
> losing its contents.

Hey, thanks, that was what I needed to know. I'll try this
tonight.

(The fact that you could answer my question tells me that my
english is not as bad is I thought :))

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