file system names: fdisk and mount

hi -
am fond of dual boot machines, win2k and redhat/fedora mostly.
just found knoppix (5.1.1), and playing with it.

looks like you have to explicitly mount the hard drive partitions, to /media.
ok.. i can use 'mount'; i'm an old command line guy who started with cp/m, but i only know what i've had to teach myself.

but the list of file system types given in the mount 'man' is different from file system types given in linux fdisk (which i have usually used for partitioning.

can someone give me a pointer to a correlation of the two lists?

in particular, fdisk's '83' (for linux) would be mount's 'ex2'? or 'ex3'?;
fdisk's 'fat32' correlates to mount's 'vfat'?;
fdisk indicates 'hpfs' and 'ntfs' are same, but mount wants to see 'ntfs' for the windows
linux i have used heretofore cannot read the more space-efficient win file system, only fat32/vfat;
but knoppix can mount and work the ntfs? is that correct?

just don't want to buggar any of my existing file systems while i am playing around.

thanks.

(perdone; probably should have put this in the 'general support' line.)

Boot Knoppix and 'cat /etc/fstab' to see what Knoppix thinks your disks / partitions are.