On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Peter Larsen plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com wrote:
Patric, fdisk (you have to start using -cul instead of -l) reports what-ever the partition table contains. It's utterly ignorant to what's on the actual partition. So simply login with fdisk, do a "t" and change the partition type to what-ever you want.
Be aware that linux ignores those types - they have absolutely no impact on how your system works.
I guess that creating a partition type using a disk partitioning tool like gparted or fdisk is different, and independent, to the filesystem that is subsequently generated inside the partition! This is a piece of knowledge, or lack of, that leads to quit a lot of confusion!
So you can make a dos partition but then put a filesystem in it that is ext4 or LVM for example..... I wonder if there is a good simple tutorial around that explains disk partitioning and filesystems?
Anyone know?