On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:52 PM, littlebat <[email protected]> wrote: > >> EX, if you change the ID on a NTFS volume from 0x07 to some random >> value, linux has no issues mounting it (albet, windows may have a fit) > > Thanks for your detailed reply. > > I used CDlinux(a linux livecd) to format a Windows FAT32 partition( which > shown as zero bytes partition under Windows) to NTFS format after copied the > data inside into other place under CDlinux. But I forgot to change its > partition Id from "b"(W95 FAT32) to "7"(HPFS/NTFS) in "fdisk". After copied > the data return into this partition, I booted into Windows and did a disk > scanning and repairing on this partition and no error or warning reported. > > Some days later, I remembered that I forgot to change that partition Id to > the proper one "7". The machine is my friend's, I am wondering if I should > call him to deliver the machine to me to fix this problem, I am not sure if > this problem will cause some more serious accident in the future.
*shrug*, I would imagine it is either working, or not working. but I am fairly confident that if it is working now, it will not break in the future due to the partition ID. Windows can take care of itself. although I suppose having it as a 0x0b instead of a 0x07 could cause more strain to the magnetic media... possibly shortening it's lifespan by 0.27 seconds. > -- > littlebat <[email protected]> > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: Brittish Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
