Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug?
On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
> I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives.
>
> I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system
> identifiers for these
> HPFS partitions:
>
> /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS
> /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown
This a little bit of a guess, (I have never used os/2 and linux on the
same machine, and I never got os/2 to run right either) but I am think
that /dev/hda2 might be your os/2 boot manager partition. Are you using it?
If you are, and linux's fdisk says it only 1 or 2 MB large, then I would
just remove it from your /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files.
Hope this helps (just a guess)
Shaya
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Shaya Potter
spotter@itd.nrl.navy.mil
>
> The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during
> the installation process. It is also a primary partition.
>
> The HPFS partition type (id 7) was created by OS/2 Warp after
> installation. Note that this is an extended partition.
>
> Has anybody else observed the two different identifers for HPFS
> filesystems? Is this a Bug? Linux produces some error messages when
> mounting the id 17 filesystem but it everything seems to work ok. I
> didn't observe any error messages when mounting the id 7 filesystem
> which also works fine.
>
> OS/2 Warp doesn't complain at all.
>
>
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