From: liljeber@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Mika Pekka Liljeberg) Subject: Re: Partitioning Warning! Date: 13 Apr 1992 11:48:55 GMT
In article <1992Apr12.151734.4845@donau.et.tudelft.nl> wolff@neuron.et.tudelft.nl (Rogier Wolff) wrote:
>
> YEP happened to me too! DR DOS 6.0 recognizes MINIX and Linux partitions
> as if they are DOS 2.0 partitions, and will friendly as ever write format
> recover files to them, thereby destroying them.
>
> This is clearly DR DOS's fault. I won't use it anymore. (too bad for the
> extra 30M i'd get on my 30M partition, haven't bought/found Stacker yet...)
>
>
> Roger
I don't use DRDOS myself, but I have a suggestion that might help.
Clearly DRDOS does not recognize Minix and Linux paritions and
blithely assumes (and this is surely a bug) that they are DOS 2.0
partitions. The obvious fix would be to use a partition ID that
DRDOS is sure to recognize as NON-DOS, say Xenix for instance.
Linux doesn't care one way or another. If memory serves, Xenix uses
ID $02. You can use Norton Utilities, or any of a number of partition
table editors, to change the partition ID.
Mika