fdisk duru question

trade14u · 03-25-2004, 09:47 AM

Let's say I put in a brand new hard drive and made two partitions but NEVER TOLD fdisk the TYPE of the partitions ( ie: Pressing T and tell fdisk I want code 83: Linux on the partition). But, then I did mkfs and made a ext3 filesystem on the partitions. Would that screw things up? Do you HAVE to explicitly tell fdisk the TYPE? I'm in Linux hell right now and don't know if my drive is bad or, well, if I'm bad.

trickykid · 03-25-2004, 10:39 AM

I don't necessarily think you have to specify the type but it could be part of the problems your having.

hw-tph · 03-25-2004, 11:29 AM

If you don't tell Linux fdisk the partition type of a new partition it will default to 83 (Linux - for ext2fs, reiserfs, and so on, but not swap or virtual partitions).

Type fdisk -l /dev/hda (where /dev/hda is the disk you wish to get info about) to get a listing of the partitions and their type.

Håkan