Re: Partition Type in fdisk
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 09:19:16AM -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have two partitions that were originally created and formatted as FAT
> (one FAT16 and the other FAT32). Both have since been reformatted at
> ext3. If I mount them without specifying the formatting and then run
> mount to display the mounted partitions they show as ext3. No surprises
> there. If I run fdisk, however, it still shows the original partition
> type. I guess reformatting does not change that. My question is
> whether the reverse is also true. Can I go into fdisk and change only
> the partition type (just to get everything in sync again) without
> messing things up.
Yes. You don't really need to, as linux does not use the partition type
(except for software RAID autodetection), but you can do it.
Frank
> One of those partitions is my fake_windows partition
> for wine and I really don't want to mess it up because it always takes
> too much effort to get wine working again when it gets fubar.
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