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[abrahams@xxxxxxxxxxx (Paul W. Abrahams)]

Today I spent several hours trying to configure a second hard drive
with this arrangement:

     hdc1     500MB   spare (I called it AIX to call it something)
     hdc2      Extended
     hdc5      Linux type 83, 3GB
     hdc6      Windows Fat16, 500MB
     hdc7      Windows Fat32, 2GB

My first attempt was to create the partitions in Yast (the version
that comes with SuSE 6.2).  The first problem was that although Yast
could create hdc6 as a DOS partition (type 6),  the `configure
filesystems' screen couldn't see it.  It turned out that for the sake
of `configure filesystems', I needed to use type e (Win95 Fat16
(LBA)).

Then, when I changed the type and went over to Windows, I discovered
that Win98 thought that the Linux partition was in fact a Windows
partition, since it was listed among the drive letters as I could tell
from the size.   Even more entertaining, there was a discrepancy
between Windows fdisk and Windows itself; Windows fdisk got it more or
less right.

The way I eventually managed to get a set of partitions acceptable to
both systems was to create the spare partition under Linux fdisk
(since Windows fdisk won't create non-Windows partitions), go over to
Windows, create an extended partition there, make 3 Windows
partitions, go back to Linux, and change the first one to type 83.
Yuck!!!  It also turned out that Windows made the extended partition
type f, though Linux made it type 6.

Is there a document somewhere that explains how all the different
fdisks relate to each other, and ditto for the variations on the FAT
partition types?

Paul Abrahams


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