Partition Types

Partition Types
The number on the right is in Hexadecimal.
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 07 07 07 08 08 08 08 08 08 09 09 09 0a 0a 0a 0b 0c 0e 0f 10 11 12 14 16 17 18 19 1b 1c 1e 20 21 21 22 23 24 26 31 32 33 34 35 36 38 39 39 3a 3b 3c 3d 40 41 41 41 42 42 42 43 44 45 45 45 46 47 48 4a 4a 4c 4d 4e DOS 12-bit fat XENIX root XENIX /usr DOS 3.0+ 16-bit FAT (up to 32M) DOS 3.3+ Extended Partition DOS 3.31+ 16-bit FAT (over 32M) OS/2 IFS (e.g., HPFS) Advanced Unix Windows NT NTFS QNX2.x (pre-1988) OS/2 (v1.0-1.3 only) AIX boot partition SplitDrive DELL partition spanning multiple drives Commodore DOS QNX 1.x and 2.x ("qny") AIX data partition Coherent filesystem QNX 1.x and 2.x ("qnz") OS/2 Boot Manager Coherent swap partition OPUS WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT, LBA-mapped WIN95: DOS 16-bit FAT, LBA-mapped WIN95: Extended partition, LBA-mapped OPUS (?) Hidden DOS 12-bit FAT Compaq config partition Hidden DOS 16-bit FAT <32M Hidden DOS 16-bit FAT >=32M Hidden IFS (e.g., HPFS) AST SmartSleep Partition Unused (Claimed for Willowtech Photon COS) Hidden WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT Hidden WIN95 OSR2 32-bit FAT, LBA-mapped Hidden WIN95 16-bit FAT, LBA-mapped Unused Reserved Unused Unused Reserved NEC DOS 3.x Reserved Reserved NOS Reserved Reserved JFS on OS/2 or eCS Reserved THEOS ver 3.2 2gb partition Plan 9 partition THEOS ver 4 spanned partition THEOS ver 4 4gb partition THEOS ver 4 extended partition PartitionMagic recovery partition Hidden NetWare Venix 80286 Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) Personal RISC Boot PPC PReP (Power PC Reference Platform) Boot Linux swap (sharing disk with DRDOS) SFS (Secure Filesystem) Windows 2000 marker Linux native (sharing disk with DRDOS) GoBack partition Boot-US boot manager Priam EUMEL/Elan EUMEL/Elan EUMEL/Elan EUMEL/Elan AdaOS Aquila (Default) ALFS/THIN lightweight filesystem for DOS Oberon partition QNX4.x QNX4.x 2nd part

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4f 4f 50 50 50 51 51 52 52 53 54 55 56 56 57 57 5c 61 63 64 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 73 74 74 75 76 77 77 78 7E 80 81 81 82 82 82 83 84 84 85 86 86 87 8a 8b 8c 8d 8e 90 91 92 93 93 94 95 97 98 99 9a 9b 9f a0 a1 a1 a3 a4 a5 a6 a7 a8 a9 aa ab ab ae af b0 QNX4.x 3rd part Oberon partition OnTrack Disk Manager (older versions) RO Lynx RTOS Native Oberon (alt) OnTrack Disk Manager RW (DM6 Aux1) Novell CP/M Microport SysV/AT Disk Manager 6.0 Aux3 Disk Manager 6.0 Dynamic Drive Overlay EZ-Drive Golden Bow VFeature Partitioned Volume. DM converted to EZ-BIOS DrivePro VNDI Partition Priam EDisk SpeedStor Unix System V (SCO, ISC Unix, UnixWare, ...), Mach, GNU Hurd PC-ARMOUR protected partition Novell Netware 286, 2.xx Novell Netware 386, 3.xx or 4.xx Novell Netware SMS Partition Novell Novell Novell Netware 5+, Novell Netware NSS Partition DiskSecure Multi-Boot Reserved Reserved Reserved Scramdisk partition IBM PC/IX Reserved M2FS/M2CS partition VNDI Partition XOSL FS MINIX until 1.4a MINIX since 1.4b, early Linux Mitac disk manager Prime Solaris x86 Linux swap Linux native (usually ext2fs) OS/2 hidden C: drive Hibernation partition Linux extended partition Old Linux RAID partition superblock NTFS volume set NTFS volume set Linux Kernel Partition (used by AiR-BOOT) Legacy Fault Tolerant FAT32 volume Legacy Fault Tolerant FAT32 volume using BIOS extd INT 13h Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS FAT12 partitition Linux Logical Volume Manager partition Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS FAT16 partitition Free FDISK hidden DOS extended partitition Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS large FAT16 partitition Hidden Linux native partition Amoeba Amoeba bad block table MIT EXOPC native partitions Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS FAT32 partitition Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS FAT32 partitition (LBA) DCE376 logical drive Free FDISK hidden Primary DOS FAT16 partitition (LBA) Free FDISK hidden DOS extended partitition (LBA) BSD/OS Laptop hibernation partition Laptop hibernation partition HP Volume Expansion (SpeedStor variant) Reserved Reserved BSD/386, 386BSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD OpenBSD NEXTSTEP Mac OS-X NetBSD Olivetti Fat 12 1.44Mb Service Partition Mac OS-X Boot partition GO! partition ShagOS filesystem ShagOS swap partition BootStar Dummy

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b1 b3 b4 b6 b7 b8 bb be c0 c0 c0 c1 c2 c2 c3 c4 c5 c6 c6 c7 c7 c8 c9 ca cb cc cd ce d0 d1 d4 d5 d6 d8 da db db db dd de df df e0 e1 e3 e4 e5 e5 e6 eb ed ee ef f0 f1 f2 f3 f4 f4 f5 f6 fa fb fc fd fe fe fe fe fe ff Reserved Reserved Reserved Reserved BSDI BSD/386 filesystem BSDI BSD/386 swap partition Boot Wizard hidden Solaris 8 boot partition CTOS REAL/32 secure small partition NTFT Partition DRDOS/secured (FAT-12) Reserved for DR-DOS 7+ Hidden Linux Hidden Linux swap DRDOS/secured (FAT-16, < 32M) DRDOS/secured (extended) DRDOS/secured (FAT-16, >= 32M) Windows NT corrupted FAT16 volume/stripe set Windows NT corrupted NTFS volume/stripe set Syrinx boot (See also ID c2.) (See also ID c2.) (See also ID c2.) reserved for DRDOS/secured (FAT32) reserved for DRDOS/secured (FAT32, LBA) CTOS Memdump? reserved for DRDOS/secured (FAT16, LBA) REAL/32 secure big partition Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT12 Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT16 <32M Old Multiuser DOS secured extended partition Old Multiuser DOS secured FAT16 >=32M CP/M-86 Non-FS Data Digital Research CP/M, Concurrent CP/M, Concurrent DOS CTOS (Convergent Technologies OS -Unisys) KDG Telemetry SCPU boot Hidden CTOS Memdump? Dell PowerEdge Server utilities (FAT fs) DG/UX virtual disk manager partition BootIt EMBRM Reserved by STMicroelectronics for a filesystem called ST AVFS. DOS access or SpeedStor 12-bit FAT extended partition DOS R/O or SpeedStor SpeedStor 16-bit FAT extended partition < 1024 cyl. Tandy DOS with logical sectored FAT (According to Powerquest.) Reserved Reserved BFS (aka BeFS) Reserved for Matthias Pauls Sprytix Indication that this legacy MBR is followed by an EFI header Partition that contains an EFI file system Linux/PA-RISC boot loader SpeedStor DOS 3.3+ secondary partition (Powerquest writes: Unisys DOS with logical sectored FAT.) Reserved (Powerquest writes: Storage Dimensions SpeedStor.) SpeedStor large partition Prologue single-volume partition Prologue multi-volume partition Reserved (Powerquest writes: Storage Dimensions SpeedStor. ) Bochs VMware File System partition VMware Swap partition Linux raid partition with autodetect using persistent superblock (Powerquest writes: Reserved for FreeDOS. ) SpeedStor > 1024 cyl. LANstep IBM PS/2 IML (Initial Microcode Load) partition, located at the end of the disk. Windows NT Disk Administrator hidden partition Linux Logical Volume Manager partition (old) Xenix Bad Block Table

Thanks go to Kevin Adams for the much more complete list. Please let me know of any errors or any types that I dont have on this list.

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