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    SubjectRe: NTFS partitions show up as OS/2 partitions.
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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.

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    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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