Partitioning with MS-DOS type

Question

I need to partition an external HD, with FAT32.

Once upon a time, fdisk listed its possible partition types in a different, clearer way. The nearest entries now seem to be

10 Microsoft reserved             E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
11 Microsoft basic data           EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
12 Microsoft LDM metadata         5808C8AA-7E8F-42E0-85D2-E1E90434CFB3
13 Microsoft LDM data             AF9B60A0-1431-4F62-BC68-3311714A69AD

but I'm not clear about the difference.

Read it up here: https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html — Panki, Nov 29 '18 at 09:15
thank you, you point exactly to the list I knew and used for years: the old fdisk partitions list. — alessandro, Nov 29 '18 at 09:21
Possible duplicate of [What is Partition System ID?](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60722/what-is-partition-system-id) — Ulrich Schwarz, Nov 29 '18 at 09:30
@Ulrich no, this question is about GPT partition types, not MBR partition types. — Stephen Kitt, Nov 29 '18 at 09:31
GPT "Microsoft ..." partition types are described in [Microsoft Documentation](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/winioctl/ns-winioctl-partition_information_gpt) — ben_wing, Jan 01 '23 at 19:07

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 29 '18 at 09:39

Since you’re partitioning a disk with a GUID partition table, fdisk shows you partition type GUIDs which are appropriate in that context, rather than the MBR partition types you’re used to.

In this particular case, you should choose type 11, “Microsoft basic data”.

Partitioning with MS-DOS type

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