Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NTFS partitions show up as OS/2 partitions. | Date | Wed, 02 Dec 1998 18:41:30 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <8E5810A00805D211B57900609419B98525D6BD@dkdifs02.dif.dk>, Jesper Juh l writes: +----- | I recently tore down a Windows NT 4.0 server that used NTFS on two | partitions. When I ran (Linux) fdisk, I noticed that both partitions | showed up as OS/2 HPFS partitions. The machine has never had OS/2 | installed on it! +--->8
Microsoft reused the OS/2 IFS (not "HPFS"; *all* OS/2 installable filesystems must use the same partition ID, ignoring dirty tricks such as ext2flt.sys) for NTFS. Probably for the same reason that OS/2 does; despite the hype, the innards of NT are still recognizeably based on OS/2 2.0.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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