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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by boeckmann, Aachen, Germany, 01.09.2023, 19:29

> > I have no idea what went wrong, but now there is
> >
> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/download/kernel.sys
> > and
> >
> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/download/initdisk.c
> >
> > it dumps some debugging information about GPT disks, but then recognizes
> > them as data partitions.
>
> Thanks.
>
> 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.

Perhaps this behaviour should be configurable?

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