Re: btrfs

[Tim]

On Wed, 2021-04-28 at 21:58 +0200, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> With fedora32, I created a btrfs partition with gparted
>
> fdisk see it as of type 83, ie. like a ext4 partition.

Partition types can preselect a preferred filing system format, but you
can override that and format them with a different system.  And how you
actually format the partition is all that will matter.

e.g.  If you reformat a DOS partition with EXT4, you get an EXT4 filing
system.

It's mostly only partitioning software that will notice what type of
partition a partition has been flagged as.  Maybe boot selection menus,
too.  Even GUI-based formatting tools will probably ignore the type,
and just make you pick which system from a list.