[SLUG] Harddisc's & partitioning.

[Al Girling]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 15:13:58 +0000
Gavin Baker wrote:

<snip>
> You can mount and use FAT32 filesystems under Linux, but it really is a
> poor choice, so I'm guessing you want to use something else.
> 
> fdisk knows about partitions. It has no understanding at all about
> filesystems.
> 
> The "System" that fdisk shows you doesn't really have much to do with
> the filesystem that you put on the partition. Some system identifiers
> are useful, "Linux LVM" and "Linux raid autodetect" partitions are found
> and initialized by the kernel if you have LVM/Kernel RAID support.
> 
> "Win95 FAT32" is not used for anything I know of, and in any case, is
> just a number wrote on the partition and doesn't mean much to anything
> (except perhaps, windows).
<snip>

Thanks for that Gav.

Theres currently nothing on this disc so I plan to experiment with it a bit to familiarise myself with partitions etc.  I'll see how things go with a combination of fdisk and parted.  Should be able to cock things up nicely I suspect! ;)

Al