> 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.
your suggestion doesn't hold water considering below he says it complains but mounts the filesystem id 17 fine. > > 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. Of course OS/2 shouldn't complain. But are you sure you have OS/2 Warp or the Merlin beta? I installed os/2 warp myself and never got this particular 'id 17' partition. Still, could you use os/2's fdisk and see what kindof partition os/2 thinks the partition on the ide hard drive is? Perhaps this is another id number we should add to the types that fdisk/linux recognizes. Especially if you can mount the os/2 volumes correctly, you should not worry but wonder when os/2 started using the new id and how to get the maintainers of fdisk to realize this fact, perhaps even to name it appropriately. BTW, there is available a rw os2 ext2 driver. It allows os/2 to mount ext2 read-write. Worked fine when I had os/2. But I ran out of space and lost the hd (shock therapy doesn't work with hd's :-) os/2 booted from, so I never re-installed. -- Todd Fries .. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
