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Re: Keeping Windows95/98 from seeing Linux drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Messmer)
Sat Nov 14 00:50:15 1998
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 21:47:17 -0800
From: Gordon Messmer <yinyang@eburg.com>
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Jeremy Domingue wrote:
>
> Hey all...
>
> I'm sure this question has been asked before... I think I recall seeing it
> asked at some point but I don't remember seeing the answer.
>
> Is there any way to keep Windows 95/98 from displaying Linux drives? I have
> Linux installed on my slave drive (dual booted), and unfortunately when
> Windows sees it, it is constantly bugging me to format the drive... it would
> be nice to just have Windows ignore the darn thing!
I think the problem here is that when you partitioned your drive
(prolly not with GNU fdisk) the partition type was set to one of the
FAT's. Then, you make an ext2 filesystem on it.
The partition type is little more than an ID flag. It does not
determine what filesystem will work on that drive. You could mkswap
on a Linux native partition, and it would work.
Anyhow, use GNU(linux) fdisk to change the partition type, and Win
shall see it no more.
MSG
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