I'm not aware of anything unless ubuntu is special* in this regard. (*yes, like the short bus kind)
Regards, Scott. On Sep 7, 2011 6:01 PM, "Charles Curley" <[email protected]> wrote: > I recently bought a laptop, and installed Ubuntu 10.10 on it. I have > since upgraded to 11.04. I used encrypted LVM. > > While doing bare metal backups, I learned that the partition with the > encrypted LVM has a partition type of 83 (Linux ext), not 8e (Linux > LVM). My bare metal backup code uses the partition type to determine > how to handle a partition. It bombs trying to use dumpe2fs to get ext > information from the partition, and rightly so. > > Before I go ahead and change the partition type, does anyone else see > this? Is there any reason NOT to change the partition type? > > Thanks > > -- > > Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign > Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards > and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email > http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email > > Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
