List of partition ID's Below a list of the known partition IDs of the various operating systems, file
systems, boot managers, etc. For the various systems, short descriptions are
given, in the cases where I have some info. There seem to be two other major
such lists: Ralf Brown's (see interrupt
list under Int 19) and
Hale Landis' but the present one
is more correct and more complete. (However, these two URLs are a valuable source
for other information.) See also the Powerquest
table and the specification
for DOS-type partition tables.
Some systems use systematic ways of modifying partition IDs. The best known
type of modification is ORing with 0x10 to `hide' a partition. Some discussion
of that below.
Some partition IDs imply a particular method of disk access. In particular,
IDs c,e,f (the LBA versions of b,6,5)
go with partition table entries that have C/H/S = 1023/255/63 and expect access
via the extended INT-13 functions (AH=4x) of the BIOS.
To be precise: this is not used to designate unused area on the disk, but
marks an unused partition table entry. (All other fields should be zero
as well.) Unused area is not designated. Plan9
assumes that it can use everything not claimed for other systems in the
partition table.
DOS is a family of single-user operating systems for PCs. 86-DOS (`QDOS'
- Quick and Dirty OS) was a CP/M-like operating system written by Tim Paterson
of Seattle Computer Products (1979). Microsoft bought it, renamed it to
MS-DOS 1.0 and sold it to IBM (1980) to be delivered together with the first
IBM PCs (1981). MS-DOS 2.0 (1983) was rather different, and designed to
be somewhat Unix-like. It supported a hard disk (up to 16MB; up to 32MB
for version 2.1). Version 3.3+ added the concept of partitions, where each
partition is at most 32MB. (Compaq DOS 3.31 relaxed this restriction.) Since
version 4.0 partitions can be 512 MB. Version 5.0 supports partitions up
to 2 GB. Several clones exist: DR-DOS
(from Digital Research, later part of Novell and called NovellDOS or NDOS,
then owned by Caldera and called OpenDOS,
then by its subsidiary Lineo who named it back to DR-DOS. See http://www.drdos.com/),
PC-DOS (from IBM), FreeDOS,
... See Types of DOS.
See comp.os.msdos.* and MSDOS
partitioning summary. The type 1 is for partitions up to 15 MB.
Xenix is an old port of Unix V7. Microsoft Xenix OS was announced August
1980, a portable and commercial version of the Unix operating system for
the Intel 8086, Zilog Z8000, Motorola M68000 and Digital Equipment PDP-11.
Microsoft introduces XENIX 3.0 in April 1983. ( Timeline
of Microcomputers) SCO delivered its first Xenix for 8088/8086 in 1983.
See comp.unix.xenix.sco.
Matthias Paul writes: Some old DOS versions have had a bug which requires
this partition to be located in the 1st physical 32 Mb of the hard disk,
hence for compatibility with these old issues, partitions located elsewhere
should better be assigned the ID FAT16B (06h).
Supports at most 8.4 GB disks: with type 5 DOS/Windows will not
use the extended BIOS call, even if it is available. See type f below.
An extended partition is a box containing a linked list of logical partitions.
This chain (linked list) can have arbitrary length, but some FDISK versions
refuse to make more logical partitions than there are drive letters available
(e.g. MS-DOS LASTDRIVE=26 is good for at most 24 disk partitions; Novell
DOS 7+ allows LASTDRIVE=32).
Partitions, or at least the FAT16 filesystems created on them, are at most
2 GB for DOS and Windows 95/98 (at most 65536 clusters, each at most 32
kB). Windows NT can create up to 4 GB FAT16 partitions (using 64 kB clusters),
but these cause problems for DOS and Windows 95/98. Note that VFAT is 16-bit
FAT with long filenames; FAT32 is a different filesystem.
IFS = Installable File System. The best known example is HPFS. OS/2 will
only look at partitions with ID 7 for any installed IFS (that's why the
EXT2.IFS packet includes a special "Linux partition filter" device driver
to fool OS/2 into thinking Linux partitions have ID 07). (Kai Henningsen
(
It is rumoured that the Windows NT boot partition must be primary, and
within the first 2 GB of the disk.
(according to QNX
Partitions)
Some reports interchange AIX boot & data. AIX is IBM's version of Unix.
See comp.unix.aix.
Coherent was a UNIX-type OS for the 286-386-486, marketed by Mark Williams
Company led by Bob Swartz, renowned for its good documentation. It was introduced
in 1980 and died 1 Feb 1995. The last versions are V3.2 for 286-386-486
and V4.0 (May 1992, using protected mode) for 386-486 only. It sold for
$99 a copy, and the FAQ says that 40000 copies have been sold. See comp.os.coherent
and this page.
A Coherent partition has to be primary.
(according to QNX
Partitions)
OS/2 is the operating system designed by Microsoft and IBM to be the successor
of MS-DOS. Dropped by Microsoft. See comp.os.os2. Windows 2000 actively
tries to destroy OS/2 Boot Manager.
Open Parallel Unisys Server. See Unisys.
Partitions up to 2047GB. See Partition
Types
Extended-INT13 equivalent of b.
Windows 95 uses e and f as the extended-INT13 equivalents
of 6 and 5. For the problems this causes, see Windows
95 fdisk problems and Possible
data loss with LBA and INT13 extensions. (Especially when going back
and forth between MSDOS and Windows 95, strange things may happen with a
type e or f partition.) Windows NT does not recognize the
four W95 types b, c, e, f ( Win95
Partition Types Not Recognized by Windows NT).
Maybe decimal, for type a.
When it boots a DOS partition, OS/2 Boot Manager will hide all primary
DOS partitions except the one that is booted, by changing its ID: 1,4,6
becomes 11,14,16. Also 7 becomes 17.
ID 12 (decimal 18) is used by Compaq for their configuration utility partition.
It is a FAT-compatible partition (about 6 MB) that boots into their utilities,
and can be added to a LILO menu as if it were MS-DOS. (David C. Niemi) Stephen
Collins reports a 12 MB partition with ID 12 on a Compaq 7330T. Tigran A.
Aivazian reports a 40 MB partition with ID 12 on a 64 MB Compaq Proliant
1600. ID 12 is used by the Compaq Contura to denote its hibernation partition.
(dan@fch.wimsey.bc.ca)
(Ralf Brown's interrupt list adds: `ID 14 resulted from using Novell DOS
7.0 FDISK to delete Linux Native partition') (Powerquest's list adds: `AST
DOS with logical sectored FAT', whatever that may be. See ID 18 for AST.)
Ascentia laptops have a `Zero Volt Suspend Partition' or `SmartSleep Partition'
of size 2MB+memory size. See AST. Ralf
Brown calls this the "AST Windows swapfile".
Claimed for Willowtech Photon coS (completely optimized system) by Willow
Schlanger
Rumoured to be used by Willowsoft Overture File System (OFS1), if there
is such a thing.
(according to delorie).
And Powerquest
writes `Officially listed as reserved (HP Volume Expansion, SpeedStor variant)'.
See also ID a1.)
Claimed for FSo2 (Oxygen File System) by Dave Poirier (
Claimed for Oxygen Extended Partition Table by
Simon Butcher (
David van Enckevort (
Plan 9 is
an operating system developed at Bell Labs for many architectures. Source
is available. See comp.os.plan9. Originally Plan 9 used an unallocated portion
at the end of the disk. Plan 9 3rd edition uses partitions of type
0x39, subdivided into subpartitions described in the Plan 9 partition
table in the second sector of the partition.
THEOS is a multiuser multitasking OS for PCs founded by Timothy Williams
in 1983. Current release 4.0, previous release 3.2. They say about themselves:
`THEOS with over 150,000 customers and over 1,000,000 users around the world
brings a mainframe look and feel to computers without the complexity and
high maintenance costs. Hundreds of applications exist with networking and
Windows integration.' See the Theos
home page
Cody Batt (
According to Powerquest.
A very old Unix-like operating system for PCs.
Very old FAQs recommended to use 41 etc instead of 81 etc
on a disk shared with DRDOS because DRDOS allegedly disregards the high
order bit of the partition type. These types are not used anymore today.
Roger Wolff (
SFS is an encrypted filesystem driver for DOS on 386+ PCs, written by Peter
Gutmann.
If a partition table entry of type 0x42 is present in the legacy partition
table, then W2K ignores the legacy partition table and uses a proprietary
partition table and a proprietary partitioning scheme (LDM or DDM). As the
Microsoft KnowledgeBase writes: Pure dynamic disks (those not containing
any hard-linked partitions) have only a single partition table entry (type
42) to define the entire disk. Dynamic disks store their volume configuration
in a database located in a 1-MB private region at the end of each dynamic
disk.
GoBack is a utility that records changes
made to the disk, allowing you to view or go back to some earlier state.
It takes over disk I/O like a Disk Manager would, and stores its logs in
its own partition.
Ulrich Straub (
According to Powerquest.
See also ID 5c.
Eumel, and later Ergos L3, are multiuser multitasking systems developed
by Jochen Liedtke at GMD. It was used at German schools for the computer
science education. ( Elan
was the programming language used.)
Nick Roberts (
According to Powerquest.
QNX is a POSIX-certified, microkernel, distributed, fault-tolerant OS for
the 386 and up, including support for the 386EX in embedded applications.
For info see http://www.qnx.com/ or ftp.qnx.com.
See also comp.os.qnx. ID 7 is outdated - QNX2 used 7, QNX4.x uses
77, and optionally 78 and 79 for additional QNX partitions on a single drive.
These values 77, 78, 79 seem to be the decimal values in view of QNX
Partitions and Neutrino
filesystems.
See http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/.
(The partition ID is given in this
posting in comp.lang.oberon. The install
instructions say that at most one partition can have this type (decimal
79), and that one needs a different type, like 50 (decimal 80) for
a second Oberon system. Moreover, that users of System Commander must avoid
types containing the 0x10 bit.)
Disk Manager is a program of OnTrack, to enable people to use IDE disks
that are larger than 504MB under DOS. For info see http://www.ontrack.com.
Linux kernel versions older than 1.3.14 do not coexist with DM.
"Beginning with version 3.0, LynxOS gives users the ability to place up
to 14 partitions of 2 GB each on both SCSI and IDE drives, for a total of
up to 28 GB of file system space." See www.lynuxworks.com.
EZ-Drive is another disk manager (by MicroHouse, 1992). Linux kernel versions
older than 1.3.29 do not coexist with EZD. (On 990323 MicroHouse International
was acquired by EarthWeb; MicroHouse Solutions split off and changed its
name into StorageSoft. MicroHouse
Development split off and changed its name into ImageCast.
It is StorageSoft that now markets EZDrive and DrivePro.)
This is a Non-Standard DOS Volume. (Disk Manager type utility software)
Doug Anderson (
(According to
Priam EDisk Partitioned Volume. This is a Non-Standard DOS Volume. (Disk
Manager type utility software)
Storage Dimensions SpeedStor Volume. This is a Non-Standard DOS Volume.
(Disk Manager type utility software)
A Unixware 7.1 partition must start below the 4GB limit. (If the /stand/stage3.blm
is located past this limit, booting will fail with "FATAL BOOT ERROR: Can't
load stage3".)
Used by PC-ARMOUR, a disk protection by Dr. A.Solomon, intended to keep
the disk inaccessible until the right password was given (and then an int13
hook was loaded above top-of-memory that showed c/h/s 0/0/2, with a copy
of the real partition table, when 0/0/1 was requested). (
(Novell Netware used to be the main Network Operating System available.
Netware 68 or S-Net (1983) was for a Motorola 68000, Netware 86 for an Intel
8086 or 8088. Netware 286 was for an Intel 80286 and existed in various
versions that were later merged to Netware 2.2. Netware 386 was a rewrite
in C for the Intel 386, later renamed 3.x - it existed at least in versions
3.0, 3.1, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12. Its successor Netware 4.xx had versions 4.00,
4.01, 4.02, 4.10, 4.11. Then came Intranetware.) Netware >= 3.0 uses
one partition per drive. It allocates logical Volumes inside these partitions.
The volumes can be split over several drives. The filesystem used is called
"Turbo FAT"; it only very vaguely resembles the DOS FAT file system. (Kai
Henningsen (
According to
Roman Gruber reports: this code has frozen my version of norton disk-editor
(so I think it has to be something special). Jeff Merkey says: 67 is for
Wolf Mountain.
According to
Scramdisk is freeware and
shareware disk encryption software. It supports container files, dedicated
partitions (type 0x74) and disks hidden in WAV audio files. (Shaun Hollingworth
(
Jeff Merkey writes: 77 is one we are using internally for M2FS/M2CS partitions.
(According to
XOSL Bootloader filesystem, see www.xosl.org.
Used for F.I.X. by
Minix is a Unix-like operating system written by Andy Tanenbaum and students
at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, around 1989-1991. It runs on PCs (8086
and up), MacIntosh, Atari, Amiga, Sparc. Ref: Operating Systems: Design
and Implementation, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-637406-9
Since 950601 Minix is freely available - site: ftp.cs.vu.nl.
See also comp.os.minix.
Solaris creates a single partition with id 0x82, then uses Sun disk labels
within the partition to split it further. (Brandon S. Allbery (
Linux is a Unix-like operating system written by Linus Torvalds and many
others on the internet since Fall 1991. It runs on PCs (386 and up) and
a variety of other hardware. It is distributed under GPL. Software can be
found numerous places, like ftp.funet.fi, metalab.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu.
See also comp.os.linux.* and http://www.linux.org/.
Various filesystem types all use ID 83. Some systems mistakenly assume that
83 must mean ext2.
OS/2-renumbered type 04 partition.
(following Appendix E of the Microsoft APM 1.1f specification). Reported
for various laptop models. E.g., used on Dell Latitudes (with Dell BIOS)
that use the MKS2D utility.
See fd.
Legacy Fault Tolerant FAT16 volume. Windows NT 4.0 or earlier will add
0x80 to the partition type for partitions that are part of a Fault Tolerant
set (mirrored or in a RAID-5 volume). Thus, one gets types 86, 87,
8b, 8c. See also Windows
NT Boot Process and Hard Disk Constraints.
Legacy Fault Tolerant NTFS volume.
Martin Kiewitz (
Free FDISK is the FDISK
used by FreeDOS. It hides types 1,
4, 5, 6, b, c, e, f by
adding decimal 140 (0x8c).
See pvcreate(8)
as found under http://linux.msede.com/lvm.
(For a while this was 0xfe.)
Amoeba is a distributed operating system written by Andy Tanenbaum, together
with Frans Kaashoek, Sape Mullender, Robert van Renesse and others since
1981. It runs on PCs (386 and up), Sun3, Sparc, 68030. It is free for universities
for research/teaching purposes. For information, see ftp.cs.vu.nl.
http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/exo/
(Andrew Purtell,
No, it's not a hibernation partition; it's closest to a DOS extended partition.
It's used by the Mylex DCE376 EISA SCSI adaptor for partitions which are
beyond the 1024th cylinder of a drive. I've only seen references to type
99 with the DCE376. (Christian Carey,
Current sysid for BSDI. The types b7 and b8 given below are
for an older version of the filesystem used in pre-v3.0 versions of the
OS. These days the system is v4.1 BSD/OS. BSDI reports 2.1 million installed
servers and 12 million licenses sold. See http://www.bsdi.com/.
Reported for various laptops like IBM Thinkpad, Phoenix NoteBIOS, Toshiba
under names like zero-volt suspend partition, suspend-to-disk partition,
save-to-disk partition, power-management partition, hibernation partition.
Usually at the start or end of the disk area. (This is also the number used
by Sony on the VAIO. Recent VAIOs can also hibernate to a file in the filesystem,
the choice being made from the BIOS setup screen.)
Reportedly used as "Save-to-Disk" partition on a NEC 6000H notebook. Types
a0 and a1 are used on systems with Phoenix BIOS; the Phoenix
PHDISK utility is used with these.
According to Powerquest
IDs 21, a1, a3, a4, a6, b1, b3, b4, b6 are for HP Volume Expansion (SpeedStor
variant).
See also ID a1.
See also ID a1.
386BSD is a Unix-like operating system, a port of 4.3BSD Net/2 to the PC
done by Bill Jolitz around 1991. When Jolitz seemed to stop development,
an updated version was called FreeBSD (1992). The outcome of a Novell vs.
UCB law suit was that Net/2 contained AT&T code, and hence was not free,
but that 4.4BSD-Lite was free. After that, FreeBSD and NetBSD were restructured,
and FreeBSD 2.0 and NetBSD 1.0 are based on 4.4BSD-Lite. FreeBSD runs on
PCs. See http://www.freebsd.org/FreeBSD.html.
For NetBSD, see below - it changed partition type to a9. 386BSD seems
to be dead now. The kernel source is being published - see Operating
System Source Code Secrets by Bill and Lynne Jolitz. See comp.os.386bsd.*.
See http://www.paranoia.com/~vax/boot.html
for NetBSD boot and partitioning info.
OpenBSD, led by Theo de Raadt, split off from NetBSD. It tries to emphasize
on security. See http://www.openbsd.org/.
See also ID a1.
Based on Mach 2.6 and features of Mach 3.0, is a true object-oriented operating
system and user environment. See http://www.next.com/.
NetBSD is one of the children of *BSD (see above). It runs on PCs and a
variety of other hardware. Since 19-Feb-98 NetBSD uses a9 instead
of a5. See http://www.netbsd.org/.
It is freely obtainable - see http://www.netbsd.org/Sites/net.html.
Contains a bare DOS 6.22 and a utility to exchange types 06 and
aa in the partition table. (
Unused. Claimed by Stanislav Karchebny for his GO!
OS.
Unused. Claimed by Frank Barrus for his ShagOS.
The boot manager BootStar manages its own partition table, with up to 15
primary partitions. It fills unused entries in the MBR with BootStar Dummy
values. See www.star-tools.com.
If you use this, don't use a disk manager, do not put LILO in the MBR and
do not use fdisk.
See also ID a1.
See also ID a1.
See also ID a1.
See also ID a1.
BSDI (Berkeley Software Design, Inc.) was founded by former CSRG (UCB Computer
Systems Research Group) members. Their operating system, based on Net/2,
was called BSD/386. After the USL (Unix System Laboratories, Inc./Novell
Corp.) vs. BSDI lawsuit, new releases were based on BSD4.4-Lite. Now they
are announcing BSD/OS V2.0.1. This is an operating for PCs (386 and up),
boasting 3000 customers. (That was long ago. The current partition id is
f, see above.)
(PTS) BootWizard 4.0 and its new version Acronis OS Selector 5.0 use this
id (i) when hiding partitions with types other than 1, 4,
6, 7, b, c, e, and (ii) when creating
a partition without file system. See www.PhysTechSoft.com.
The boot software was purchased on 2001-01-05 by SWsoft. See www.acronis.com.
See d0 below.
According to
According to Powerquest
IDs c2, c3, c8, c9, ca, cd are reserved for DR-DOS 7+.
Benedict Chong (
DR-DOS 6.0 will add 0xc0 to the partition type for a LOGIN.EXE-secured
partition (so that people cannot avoid the password check by booting from
an MS-DOS floppy).
NTFS will add 0xc0 to the partition type for disabled parts of a Fault
Tolerant set. Thus, one gets types c6, c7. See also Windows
NT Boot Process and Hard Disk Constraints and Switching
from DR-DOS 6.0 to MS-DOS 5.0.
See also ID c2.
See also ID c2.
See also ID c2.
See also ID c2.
REAL/32 is a continuation of DR Multiuser DOS. Andrew Freeman (
The reports on d1, d4, d5, d6 may be mistaken? They could be c1, c4, c5,
c6 hidden by System Commander or so.
Added on request of John Hardin (
Mark Morgan Lloyd (
Glenn Steen (
The boot manager BootIt manages its own partition table, with up to 255
primary partitions. See www.terabyteunlimited.com.
If you use this, don't use a disk manager, do not put LILO in the MBR and
do not use fdisk. Reference for the ID: BOOTIT.TXT.
According to Powerquest.
BeOS is an operating system that runs on Power PCs and, since recently,
on Intel PCs. See http://www.be.com/.
Matthias Paul (
Bob Griswold (
Paul Bame (
Powerquest
writes: Unisys DOS with logical sectored FAT.
Powerquest
writes: Storage Dimensions SpeedStor.
The type F4 partition contains one volume, and is not used anymore. The
type F5 partition contains 1 to 10 volumes (called MD0 to MD9). It supports
one or more systems (Prologue 3, 4, 5, Twin Server). Each volume can have
as file system the NGF file system or TwinFS file system. NGF (old): volume
size at most 512 MB, at most 895 files per directory, at most 256 directories
per volume. TwinFS (new): volume size up to 4 GB. No limit in number of
files and directories. See Prologue.
Powerquest
writes: Storage Dimensions SpeedStor.
VMware offers virtual machines in
which one can run Linux, Windows, FreeBSD. These partition IDs announced
by Dan Scales (
See the HOWTO
and the kernel
patches. Earlier, 86 was used instead of fd.
Powerquest
writes: Reserved for FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org).
Mark Morgan Lloyd (
This has been in use since the early LVM days back in 1997, and has now
(Sept. 1999) been renamed 0x8e.
© Andries E. Brouwer 1995-2001
kai@khms.westfalen.de))
1B0 70 00 00 00 28 00 00 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 05 00
1C0 0C 00 00 00 18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1D0 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 18 00 00 00
01 02 - NTFS v1.2 used with Windows NT 4
03 00 - NTFS v3.0 used with Windows 2000, commonly called NTFS v5
03 01 - NTFS v3.1 used with Windows XP
willow@dezine.net. See dejanews.
ekstazya@sprint.ca).
See dejanews.
ekstazya@sprint.ca.
See dejanews.
simonb@alien.net.au) writes: This type is being
used by an operating system being developed by Alien Internet Services in
Melbourne Australia called NOS. The id '32' was chosen not only because
it's one of the few that are left available, but 32k is the size of the
EEPROM the OS was originally targetted for.
david@mensys.nl) writes: Type 0x35
is used by OS/2 Warp Server for e-Business, OS/2 Convenience Pack (aka version
4.5) and eComStation (eCS, an OEM
version of OS/2 Convenience Pack) for the OS/2 implementation of JFS (IBM
AIX Journaling Filesystem). Since JFS is a non-bootable file system,
you cannot install eCS to a JFS partition.
codyb@powerquest.com) writes: When a PowerQuest
product like PartitionMagic
or Drive Image
makes changes to the disk, it first changes the type flag to 0x3C so that
the OS won't try to modify it etc. At the end of the process, it gets changed
back to what it was at first. So, the only time you should see a 0x3C type
flag is if the process was interrupted somehow (power outage, user reboot
etc). If you change it back manually with a partition table editor or something
then most of the time everything is okay.
R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl) confirms: I remember
installing DRDOS, and getting a few extra drive letters that I didn't expect.
Turns out those are my Minix partitions. It is looking at them as a FAT
filesystem. Looks like a big mess. After finding no other possibility than
to just "not touch those drive letters" I continue with the install. After
a few minutes DRDOS automatically decides to write a copy of the FAT into
a file on one of my MINIX partitions. Bye bye Minix partition.
ustraub@boot-us.de) writes: The boot manager
can be installed to MBR, a separate primary partition or diskette. When
installed to a primary partition this partition gets the ID 45h. This partition
does not contain a file system, it contains only the boot manager and occupies
a single cylinder (below 8 GB). See www.boot-us.com.
nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk) writes:
I am a member of a project creating a new operating system, called AdaOS,
see www.AdaOS.org, with storage manager
called Aquila. We wish to use partition type code 4a to allow Aquila
to know which partitions to (attempt to) 'mount' during bootup. Aquila will
support striping, ghosting, and coagulation. Every Aquila partition will
have the byte sequence <41 51 55 49 4C 41> hex at offset 0 of the
first actual sector of the Aquila volume. Aquila will only recognise a primary
partition.
DougA@ImageCast.com), with his brother Steve
cofounder of MicroHouse (1989), writes: We actually use three different
partition types: $55: `StorageSoft EZ-BIOS' - EZ-Drive, Maxtor, MaxBlast,
and DriveGuide install this type if the drive needs to be handled by our
INT13 redirector. $56: `StorageSoft EZ-BIOS DM Conversion' - Same as $55
but used when a DiskManager "skewed" partition has been converted to EZ-BIOS.
$57: `StorageSoft DrivePro' - Used by our DrivePro product.
disk.c in the Netware source. Not in actual
use.)
loekw@worldonline.nl)
kai@khms.westfalen.de))
disk.c in the Netware source. SMS: Storage Management
Services. No longer used.
disk.c in the Netware source. NSS = Novell Storage
Services.
moatlane@btconnect.com))
disk.c in the Netware source. Not in actual
use.)
gruberr@kapsch.net. See dejanews.
allbery@kf8nh.apk.net))
KiWi@vision.fido.de) writes: I'm currently
writing a pretty nice boot-loader. For this I'm using Linux Boot Loader
ID A0h, and partitition type 8Ah for the partition holding the kernel image.
Andrew_Purtell@NAI.com)
ccarey@CapAccess.ORG)
loekw@worldonline.nl)
disk.c in the Netware source.
bchong@blueskyinnovations.com) writes: BlueSky
Innovations LLC does a boot manager product called Power Boot and we
use, in addition, 0C2h and 0C3h for hidden Linux partitions (swap and ext2fs).
See also ID c2.
afreeman@imsltd.com)
writes: REAL/32 supports the standard FAT12, FAT16 partition types and will
shortly support FAT32. For partitions which have been marked as secure we
use 0xC0 and 0xD0 as partition markers (C0 < 32mb, D0 >= 32mb). REAL/32
is an advanced 32-bit multitasking & multi-user MS-DOS & Windows
compatible operating system. Home page is www.imsltd.com.
johnh@aproposretail.com).
markMLl.in@telemetry.co.uk) writes: KDG
Telemetry uses type 0xdb to store a protected-mode binary image of the
code to be run on a 'x86-based SCPU (Supervisory CPU) module from the DT800
range.
glenn.steen@ap1.se) writes: When I made an old
Aviion 2000 triple-boot (DOS, DG/UX and Linux) I saw that Linux fdisk reported
the DG/UX virtual disk manager partition as type 0xdf.
Matthias.Paul@post.rwth-aachen.de) writes:
Sprytix is currently a project name for an OS related project of mine, partially
based on DOS and Linux technologies. It is still in the very early stages
and not publically available. ("ED" was chosen in reminescence of the Digital
Research European Development Centre, EDC, and because it's nearby the other
DR-DOS and Multiuser DOS partition IDs.)
rogris@Exchange.Microsoft.com) writes: MS plans
on using EE and EF in the future for support of non-legacy BIOS booting.
Mark Doran (mark.doran@intel.com) adds: these types are used
to support the Extensible Firmware Interface specification (EFI); go to
developer.intel.com and search
for EFI. (For the types ee and ef, see Tables 16-6 and 16-7
of the EFI specification, EFISpec_091.pdf.)
bame@debian.org) writes: the F0 partition will
be located in the first 2GB of a drive and used to store the Linux/PA-RISC
boot loader and boot command line, optionally including a kernel and ramdisk.
scales@vmware.com).
markMLl.in@telemetry.co.uk) writes: Windows
NT Disk Administrator marks hidden partitions (i.e. present but not to be
accessed) as type 0xfe. A primary partition of this type is also used by
IBM to hold an image of the "Reference Diskettes" on many of their machines,
particularly newer PS/2 systems (at a rough guess, anything built after
about 1994). This clash can cause major confusion and grief if running NT
on IBM kit. When this Reference Partition is activated, it changes its type
into 1 (FAT12) and hides all other partitions by adding 0x10 to the type.