Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: NTFS partitions show up as OS/2 partitions. | Date | 3 Dec 1998 20:51:27 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981202201513.25597A-100000@labyrinth.logic.net> By author: "Edward S. Marshall" <emarshal@logic.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Microsoft, in their ultimate wisdom, thought it would be a good idea to > assign the same partition magic number to NTFS that HPFS used. All fdisk > sees is that number. > > So, there's no way to (at the partition level) tell the difference between > NTFS and HPFS. Thanks, Bill. >
No, it's not the magic number, it's the partition ID. NTFS and HPFS actually have real magic numbers rather than using the single-byte partition ID in the partition table. This is the Right Thing[TM].
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