• knorke3@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    to be fair, it actually doesn’t know - windows doesn’t do ext4…

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      1 year ago

      But it knows there’s a partition there and it’s easy to know it’s a Linux partition type. Microsoft just prefer to say it doesn’t know the partition type and simply say it ignores it. You don’t need to have support for a file system in order to check it’s partition type. It’s just ms bs