First primary partition FAT16?

[andrew-rogers]

noobs/recovery/initdrivethread.cpp

Line 258 in 134417f

 partitionTable  = QByteArray::number(startOfOurPartition)+","+QByteArray::number(sizeOfOurPartition)+",0E\n"; /* FAT partition */ 

The SD cards are normally formatted to FAT32 and contain a FAT32 filesystem on the first primary partition. I notice the code '0E' is used instead of '0C' when the recovery program re-partitions the drive. Is this intentional? If so, is the filesystem converted to FAT16 later on?

[Andrew Scheller]

If so, is the filesystem converted to FAT16 later on?

Nope. Looking at the rest of the function you linked to, it looks like it resizes the first primary partition, and then uses sfdisk to write out a new partition table with the first partition, the extended partition and the settings partition. So I guess you could argue that the function should read the existing partition-id for the first partition and write that back, rather than always overwriting the first partition's id with 0E; but I suspect in practical terms it makes no actual difference, i.e. it doesn't really matter if the partition-id exactly matches the filesystem type, as long as they're both some flavour of FAT.
(if it did cause problems, I'm sure we'd have heard about it by now 😉 )