Code Description ------------------------------------------------------------------- 00 Unused Partition 01 DOS, 12-bit FAT 02 XENIX System, includes SCO/XENIX 03 XENIX User, includes SCO/XENIX 04 DOS, 16-bit FAT 05 DOS and OS/2, >32MB support. Defines an Extended partition, which may include other partition types. 06 DOS, 32MB support, up to 64K Allocation unit 07 OS/2, 32MB partition support (IFS) [HPFS] 08 AIX 08 OS/2 (through Version 1.3 only) 08 DELL partition spanning multiple drives (array) 08 Commodore DOS Partition 09 AIX 0A OS/2 Boot Manager Partition 0B-0D Available for assignment 0E-0F Reserved 10 Reserved 11 OS/2 Boot Manager: DOS - Inactive type 1 12 Reserved 13 Available for assignment 14 OS/2 Boot Manager: DOS - Inactive type 4 15 Available for assignment 16 OS/2 Boot Manager: DOS - Inactive type 6 17 OS/2 Boot Manager: DOS - Inactive type 7 18-20 Available for assignment 21 Reserved 22 Available for assignment 23-24 Reserved 25 Available for assignment 26 Reserved 27-30 Available for assignment 31 Reserved 32 Available for assignment 33-34 Reserved 35 Available for assignment 36 Reserved 37-3F Available for assignment 40 Series/1 Disk 41 Personal RISC Boot Partition 42-4F Available for assignment 50 OnTrack Disk Manager 51 OnTrack Disk Manager 52 Reserved 53-55 Available for assignment 56 Reserved 57-60 Available for assignment 61 Reserved 62 Available for assignment 63 SCO UNIX 64 Novell 64 Speedstore 65 Novell 286 Netware 66 Novell 386 Netware 67 Novell (future use) 68 Novell (future use) 69 Novell (future use) 6A-70 Available for assignment 71 Reserved 72 Available for assignment 73-74 Reserved 75 PC/IX 76 Reserved 77-79 Available for assignment 80-81 Reserved 82 Prime or Linux 83 Apple Computer or Linux Swapper Partition 84 System Hibernation for APM 1.1 85-85 Available for assignment 86 Reserved 87 HPFS FT mirrored partition 88-92 Available for assignment 93-94 Reserved 95-A0 Available for assignment A1 Reserved A2 Available for assignment A3-A4 Reserved A5 Available for assignment A6 Reserved A7-B0 Available for assignment B1 Reserved B2 Available for assignment B3-B4 Reserved B5 Available for assignment B6-B8 Reserved B9-C0 Available for assignment C1 Reserved C2-C3 Available for assignment C4 Reserved C5 Available for assignment C6 Reserved C7 HPFS FT disabled mirrored partition C8-D7 Available for assignment D8 CP/M 86 D9-DA Available for assignment DB Reserved DC-E0 Available for assignment E1 Speedstore E2 Available for assignment E3 Storage Dimensions (Maxtor Retail Subsidiary) E4 Speedstore E5-E6 Reserved E7-F0 Available for assignment F1 Storage Dimensions (Maxtor Retail subsidiary) F2-F3 Reserved F4 Storage Dimensions (Maxtor Retail subsidiary) F5 Available for assignment F6 Reserved F7-FD Available for assignment FE IBM PS/2 IML FF Bad Block Tables - Must be on cylinder 0 Source: http://www.netins.net/showcase/spectre/appi.htm Code Description Comments 0x00 Empty 0x01 DOS 12-bit FAT 0x02 XENIX root 0x03 XENIX usr 0x04 DOS 16-bit <32M 0x05 Extended 0x06 DOS 16-bit >=32M 0x07 OS/2 HPFS or QNX? 0x08 AIX 0x09 AIX bootable 0x0a OS/2 Boot Manager 0x40 Venix 80286 0x51 Novell? 0x52 Microport or CPM? 0x63 GNU HURD or System V/386? 0x64 Novell Netware 286 0x65 Novell Netware 386 0x75 PC/IX 0x80 Old MINIX Minix 1.4a and earlier 0x81 Linux/MINIX Minix 1.4b and later 0x82 Linux swap 0x83 Linux native 0x93 Amoeba 0x94 Amoeba BBT bad block table 0xa5 BSD/386 0xb7 BSDI fs 0xb8 BSDI swap 0xc7 Syrinx 0xdb CP/M or Concurrent DOS? 0xe1 DOS access 0xe3 DOS R/O 0xf2 DOS secondary 0xff BBT bad track table Source: fdisk.c from util-linux-2.5-38