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FAT32 drive on GPT (Miscellaneous)

posted by tom Homepage, Germany (West), 01.09.2023, 22:52

> > 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.

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