Hello,
With fedora32, I created a btrfs partition with gparted
fdisk see it as of type 83, ie. like a ext4 partition. Is it normal?
btrfs filesystem show can show it
Can I format the partition with an option of mke2fs ?
Thanks
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On 29/04/2021 03:58, Patrick Dupre wrote:
Hello,
With fedora32, I created a btrfs partition with gparted
fdisk see it as of type 83, ie. like a ext4 partition. Is it normal?
Yes
btrfs filesystem show can show it
Can I format the partition with an option of mke2fs ?
Are you saying you don't want to use btrfs and want to switch back to ext4?
Sure you can reformat any partition.
FWIW, why not use the desired type from this list?
mkfs.btrfs mkfs.ext3 mkfs.gfs2 mkfs.msdos mkfs.reiserfs mkfs.cramfs mkfs.ext4 mkfs.hfsplus mkfs.nilfs2 mkfs.udf mkfs.exfat mkfs.f2fs mkfs.jfs mkfs.ntfs mkfs.vfat mkfs.ext2 mkfs.fat mkfs.minix mkfs.ocfs2 mkfs.xfs
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.
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