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Windows eats partitions (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

to be fair, it actually doesn't know - windows doesn't do ext4...

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 11 months 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