Allegedly, on or about 06 July 2016, jd1008 sent: > Have a drive partitioned (MBR) to have 1 partition. > However, I had forgotten to change partition type to > LINUX. > Now that I have data on it (fstype ext3), I wonder if > it is worth it to change partition type to Linux? As Samuel said, it's mostly ignored by Linux. However, if you dual-boot with Windows, it *may* be worthwhile changing it, so that Windows will ignore it. I don't know what Windows gets up to, these days, but in the past it *could* repeatedly ask whether you wanted to format such a partition. On Linux, few things pay attention to the partition type. Some formatting tools may default to formatting a partition with a filesystem according to it's type, when you begin to run the program (e.g. the choice gets preselected). But you're free to change the default, and actually format it with a different filesystem. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Windows (TM) [Typhoid Mary]. They refuse to believe that there's anything wrong with it, but everyone else knows Windows is a disease that spreads. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
