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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by CandyMan, 02.09.2023, 00:14

> > > I built the kernel and now it works. However, it also adds other disks
> > from
> > > the GPT partition (also NTFS) with zero free space.
> >
> > For GPT entries, there is no distinction between FAT and NTFS
> partitions.
> > Both have partition type EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7.
> >
> > If the non-FAT partitions do not get a drive letter assigned at boot,
> there
> > is no way to reformat a such partition under FreeDOS with a FAT
> filesystem,
> > at least with the format utility currently provided by FreeDOS.
> +1
>
> a distinction could be made between "microsoft reserved", "uefi boot", and
> "plain data partitions", it's not clear to me what the behaviour should
> be.
>
> >
> > Perhaps this behaviour should be configurable?
>
> possibly.
> however since the users of this feature has currently a group size of 1 and
> he is able to recompile the kernel: let him check this out and tell us what
> he thinks.

An option to skip NTFS drives would be useful.

I'm not sure but the creator of fatfs http://elm-chan.org/fsw/ff/00index_e.html somehow distinguishes these types of file systems.

Complete thread:

• FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 30.08.2023, 18:15
  • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 30.08.2023, 20:21
    • FAT32 drive on GPT - bretjohn, 31.08.2023, 01:27
    • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 31.08.2023, 10:31
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 31.08.2023, 14:52
        • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 17:32
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 31.08.2023, 18:27
        • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 17:24
          • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 01.09.2023, 19:11
            • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 01.09.2023, 19:29
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 01.09.2023, 22:52
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - CandyMan, 02.09.2023, 00:14
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - bretjohn, 02.09.2023, 03:39
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 02.09.2023, 12:54
                  • FAT32 drive on GPT - ecm, 02.09.2023, 14:07
                    • FAT32 drive on GPT - boeckmann, 02.09.2023, 15:17
                • FAT32 drive on GPT - tom, 02.09.2023, 21:51
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 02.09.2023, 21:14
            • FAT32 drive on GPT - 0ffer, 02.01.2024, 20:05
              • FAT32 drive on GPT - ecm, 03.02.2024, 19:08
      • FAT32 drive on GPT - RayeR, 02.09.2023, 21:19
  • FAT32 drive on GPT - mceric, 30.08.2023, 22:54