Erik P. Olsen wrote: > Karl Larsen wrote: >> >> This is the file system that Windows uses and I worked with fdisk >> and it will be happy to make a partition with that file system. > > HPFS is an OS/2 file system. > I thought Windows could also use FAT file systems. At least the versions of Windows I have used have supported the different versions of FAT file systems. Something else to keep in mind, from the fdisk man page: If possible, fdisk will obtain the disk geometry automatically. This is not necessarily the physical disk geometry (indeed, modern disks do not really have anything like a physical geometry, certainly not something that can be described in simplistic Cylinders/Heads/Sectors form), but is the disk geometry that MS-DOS uses for the partition table. Usually all goes well by default, and there are no problems if Linux is the only system on the disk. However, if the disk has to be shared with other operating systems, it is often a good idea to let an fdisk from another operating system make at least one partition. When Linux boots it looks at the partition table, and tries to deduce what (fake) geometry is required for good cooperation with other systems. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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