Re: OS/2 HPFS File System - Is this a Bug? + a note for the list maintainers
Hello.
First a little note if you have seen this message already:
I'm having problems getting the mail go futher than the network the machine
I'm on, so sorry if you see this for the nth time.
jworthington@worldnet.att.net said:
>
> 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
>
>
> 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.
>
>
I already sent a mail about this but it didn't reach the debian list to my
knowledge, so here I go again. Sorry if somebody gets this twice.
Yes. I have this behaviour in my system as well, although in my case it's
a FAT partition. I have two primary ones on my first hard disk, so one is
always hidden (for DOZ and OS/2).
When I check out the partion types with fdisk under Linux I see that the
partition that is considered hidden has id 16 in contrast to the one that
isn't hidden, id 6. Then if I make the hidden one unhidden (and the other
one hidden) the ids have changed places.
How about that,
MartinS
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