Re: 2GB FAT16

Stephen Gregory wrote:
> Andy Civil wrote:
> 
>> I suspect that you succeeded in making a FAT16 filesystem, and that the
>> fsck output is mistaken. Why don't you try fdisk, and see what type it
>> gives you when you list the partitions with the "p" command?
> 
> The output from fdisk is not necessarily related to the filesystem type
> on the partition. In the partition table there is a "filesystem type"
> field that specifies what should be there, not what is there. Fdisk is
> printing what should be there. Unix file system tools generally ignore
> that field [1]. I have no idea what Microsoft tools do. Some may very
> well take the type field as gospel. Some may modify the field in the
> partition table after formating the drive.
> 
> 
> [1] For years I had root on a "swap partition" (type 0x82) and swap on a
> "linux partition" (type 0x83).
> 

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