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I am trying to inspect an SD card which may or may not be failing, on Ubuntu 14.04. This is the output I get from fdisk -l:

$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdc
...
Disk identifier: 0x000a671b

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1   *          63      144584       72261    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)
/dev/sdc2          144585     7553023     3704219+   e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

What I find weird is the "e" in the "Id" column - trying to remind myself what I usually get there, I found https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-check-boot-path-command/, and "Id" should be like "82" (for linux swap), "83" (I guess this was ext3) etc. But now, here I see "e", and for some other drives of mine, "ee".

So what is the meaning of "e" and "ee" in the "Id" column of fdisk -l output? I tried looking in man fdisk, but could find explanations there...

sdaau
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The id is the partition type (or id) which is used to specify the filesystem type of the partition.

This link shows that e or 0e means WIN95: DOS 16-bit FAT, LBA-mapped and ee means Indication that this legacy MBR is followed by an EFI header.

You can also find more information about it here

sapensadler
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