On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 23:25, littlebat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found a fact, I set the wrong partition Id to a hard disk partition when I > use fdisk in Linux, after I format this partition with mkfs command, this > partition is always work for me. > > For example, I seted a partition Id with "b" (vfat, it should be "83" for a > Linux partition), and format it to a ext3 file system with command mkfs.ext3, > the everything is ok. > > So I don't know what is the function of this partition Id? Is there any issue > when set this wrong partition Id like the previous example? Is it only a two > words' tag in Disk Partition Table and no any other meaning? >
I think it's just for the system to identify what the partition is supposed to be for. While in your case it works, I tried it once and it killed my hard disk. (I'm just lucky I was using Virtualbox :P). You might lose some functions, maybe? --later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
