Red Hat ENTREPRISE LINUX 5 Installation Manual page 284

Chapter 26. An Introduction to Disk Partitions
Figure 26.6. Disk Drive With Single Partition
In many cases, there is only a single partition spanning the entire disk, essentially duplicating the
method used before partitions. The partition table has only one entry used, and it points to the start of
the partition.
We have labeled this partition as being of the "DOS" type. Although it is only one of several possible
partition types listed in
Table 26.1, "Partition Types", contains a listing of some popular (and obscure) partition types, along
with their hexadecimal numeric values.
Partition Type
Empty
DOS 12-bit FAT
XENIX root
XENIX usr
DOS 16-bit <=32M
Extended
DOS 16-bit >=32
OS/2 HPFS
AIX
AIX bootable
OS/2 Boot Manager
Win95 FAT32
Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Win95 FAT16 (LBA)
Win95 Extended (LBA)
Venix 80286
Novell
PPC PReP Boot
GNU HURD
Novell Netware 286
Table 26.1. Partition Types
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Table 26.1, "Partition Types", it is adequate for the purposes of this discussion.
Value
00
01
02
03
04
05
06
07
08
09
0a
0b
0c
0e
0f
40
51
41
63
64
Partition Type
Novell Netware 386
PIC/IX
Old MINIX
Linux/MINUX
Linux swap
Linux native
Linux extended
Amoeba
Amoeba BBT
BSD/386
OpenBSD
NEXTSTEP
BSDI fs
BSDI swap
Syrinx
CP/M
DOS access
DOS R/O
DOS secondary
BBT
Value
65
75
80
81
82
83
85
93
94
a5
a6
a7
b7
b8
c7
db
e1
e3
f2
ff