What's the partition type number for FAT32 and NTFS?

[Vertimus]

Anyone know?

There's a lot of them that contain the string "FAT" etc, but I'm not sure which one to use.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

Originally posted by: Vertimus
Anyone know?

There's a lot of them that contain the string "FAT" etc, but I'm not sure which one to use.

Doing a Debian install? I think the Windows or Win95 (whatever it is) FAT32 is what you want - but I don't remember if it can make a NTFS partition - stick to the windows xp cd for that.

 

[gorcorps]

win 2000 and xp use ntfx... the older ones (and i believe most unix systems) use fat32. Most mp3 players (hdd based of course) use fat32 patitions as well... it's more universal i guess.

 

[Vertimus]

Originally posted by: futuristicmonkey

Originally posted by: Vertimus
Anyone know?

There's a lot of them that contain the string "FAT" etc, but I'm not sure which one to use.

Doing a Debian install? I think the Windows or Win95 (whatever it is) FAT32 is what you want - but I don't remember if it can make a NTFS partition - stick to the windows xp cd for that.

well, fdisk/cfdisk is pretty much used on all linux systems. Do you know the specific hex number for it? I'm pretty sure I figured out the one for NTFS, since there's only 1 place that mentions it.

I still think it's better to create the partition in linux, because then you dont' have to go through the laberous process of booting off the winxp cdrom. Then just format the thing in windows (off the hard drive), but that requires the partition flag to be set beforehand.

 

[Vertimus]

Originally posted by: gorcorps
win 2000 and xp use ntfx... the older ones (and i believe most unix systems) use fat32. Most mp3 players (hdd based of course) use fat32 patitions as well... it's more universal i guess.

Unix doesnt' use fat32. Most that i've seen use ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, or jfs.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: Vertimus

Originally posted by: gorcorps
win 2000 and xp use ntfx... the older ones (and i believe most unix systems) use fat32. Most mp3 players (hdd based of course) use fat32 patitions as well... it's more universal i guess.

Unix doesnt' use fat32. Most that i've seen use ext2, ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, or jfs.

Unix... I don't know about.

Linux can use fat32 by default (unless I'm somehow mistaken... and if I am, my Ubuntu install that's reading/writing a fat32 partition is a gift from god ).