Re: Partition Type
On Sun, 2023-09-24 at 07:40 -0500, Roger Heflin wrote:
Partition types are rather meaningless. They are there and everyone
seems to set it, but when wrong it does not seem to matter. At best
it is information that is sometimes right.
I have not seen that the partition type has to have any relationship
to what is actually on the partition.
I've seen that setting a partition type may prompt any subsequent
formatting with a particular default file system. But yes, you can
format to a different type of filing system and it doesn't update the
partition type. You probably need to be using an all-in-one tool that
partitions and formats for that sequence of events to occur in a
logical fashion.
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