Re: partition types
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:40:14AM +0200, Martin Sj?gren wrote:
> ons 2003-10-22 klockan 05.42 skrev Chris Tillman:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:56:39PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> > >
> > > In cfdisk, I told it to change my 128 mb swap partition to ext2, and
> > > write and quit. For some reason the next screen (picking partitions to
> > > mount?) still identified it as type swap. I went back and checked, it
> > > was ext2 according to fdisk. Still swap as far as d-i knew, but I went
> > > ahead and told it to mount that as the root partition. Lacking any other
> > > partitions, I continued with the install.
> >
> > I think it identifies it as swap because it's looking at the filesystem
> > that's present on the partition, not the partition type.
>
> Exactly. Are the "partition types" really useful anyway?
>
In a partition program like cfdisk you expect that it uses partition types.
So yes, they are usefull.
Geert Stappers
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