Partition types

Andries Brouwer, aeb@cwi.nl

1. List of partition identifiers for PCs

2. Properties of partition tables.

• 2.1 Why partitions?
• 2.2 What does a partition table look like?
• 2.3 Partition descriptors
• 2.4 Partition hiding
• 2.5 CHS vs LBA
• 2.6 Logically sectored FAT
• 2.7 What does FDISK /MBR do?
• 2.8 Structure of the MBR - OS additions
• 2.9 The Advanced Active Partition of PTS
• 2.10 Naming
• 2.11 Limits
• 2.12 Details for various operating systems
• 2.13 Partition Magic
• 2.14 Acknowledgements