On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 12:52 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > 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. > It can but Windows on a fat system is not as stable or protected from corruption. > 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 > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree But only if the NFL to a franchise would agree. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
