On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Jim Worthington wrote:
> I'm running OS/2 Warp with HPFS on several of my drives. > > I noticed that Linux 1.1 fdisk reveals two different file system > identifiers for these > HPFS partitions: > > /dev/sda5 id 7 OS/2 HPFS > /dev/hda2 id 17 Unknown This a little bit of a guess, (I have never used os/2 and linux on the same machine, and I never got os/2 to run right either) but I am think that /dev/hda2 might be your os/2 boot manager partition. Are you using it? If you are, and linux's fdisk says it only 1 or 2 MB large, then I would just remove it from your /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab files. Hope this helps (just a guess) Shaya -- Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The Unknown partition type (id 17) was created by OS/2 Warp fdisk during > the installation process. It is also a primary partition. > > The HPFS partition type (id 7) was created by OS/2 Warp after > installation. Note that this is an extended partition. > > Has anybody else observed the two different identifers for HPFS > filesystems? Is this a Bug? Linux produces some error messages when > mounting the id 17 filesystem but it everything seems to work ok. I > didn't observe any error messages when mounting the id 7 filesystem > which also works fine. > > OS/2 Warp doesn't complain at all. > >
