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type, to flag the partition as being associated with a particular operating system, to indicate that the
partition contains a bootable operating system, or some combination of the three.
By this point, you might be wondering how all this additional complexity is normally used. Refer to
Figure 26.6, “ Disk Drive With Single Partition” , for an example.
Fig u re 26 .6 . Disk Drive Wit h Sin g le Part it io n
In many cases, there is only a single partition spanning the entire disk, essentially duplicating the
method used before partitions. The partition table has only one entry used, and it points to the start
of the partition.
We have labeled this partition as being of the "DOS" type. Although it is only one of several possible
partition types listed in Table 26.1, “ Partition Types” , it is adequate for the purposes of this
discussion.
Table 26.1, “ Partition Types” , contains a listing of some popular (and obscure) partition types, along
with their hexadecimal numeric values.
T ab le 26 .1. Part it io n Typ es
Part it io n T yp e Valu e Part it io n T yp e Valu e
Empty 00 Novell Netware 386 65
DOS 12-bit FAT 01 PIC/IX 75
XENIX root 02 Old MINIX 80
XENIX usr 03 Linux/MINUX 81
DOS 16-bit <=32M 04 Linux swap 82
Extended 05 Linux native 83
DOS 16-bit >=32 06 Linux extended 85
OS/2 HPFS 07 Amoeba 93
AIX 08 Amoeba BBT 94
AIX bootable 09 BSD/386 a5
OS/2 Boot Manager 0a OpenBSD a6
Win95 FAT32 0b NEXTSTEP a7
Win95 FAT32 (LBA) 0c BSDI fs b7
Win95 FAT16 (LBA) 0e BSD I swap b8
Win95 Extended (LBA) 0f Syrinx c7
Venix 80286 40 CP/M db
Novell 51 DOS access e1
PPC PReP Boot 41 DOS R/O e3
GNU HURD 63 DOS secondary f2
Novell Netware 286 64 BBT ff
26.1.3. Part it ions wit hin Part it ions — An Overview of Ext ended Part it ions
⁠Chapt er 2 6 . An Int roduct ion t o Disk Part it ions
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