HPFS/NTFS File System

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 20 20:56:05 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 19:37 +0200, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
> > 
> >    This is the file system that Windows uses and I worked with fdisk and 
> > it will be happy to make a partition with that file system.
> 
> HPFS is an OS/2 file system.
> 
> -- 
> Ciao, Erik.

In Linux HPFS and NTFS are described with the same format type.
In fact the name was a way to prevent people from knowing that 
IBM and Microsoft were not as independent as they pretend in formating
disks,


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