I'm pretty sure that's the case. As long as you don't change the boundaries, the type can be changed non-destructively (don't quote me on that). And even so, I wouldn't think that you could fsck it and break it unless you were really trying... I've had partitions before that were totally the wrong type in the partition table (like an ext3 declared as NTFS) and everything still ran fine.
Kevin On 9/25/07, Derek Juba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Rob Sherwood wrote: > > So I just setup LVM for the first time and everything works great... > > except the guide I was following never told me to set the partition > > type of the disks to LVM (8e). My partitions are still "Linux" (83): > > does it matter? I had a friend tell me he lost data b/c he booted off > > a boot disk with an older version of linux and it fsck'ed his LVM > > partitions like they were plain ext2. > > > > Does anyone know if this matters? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > - Rob > > . > > > Isn't it possible to just change the partition type with fdisk without > losing any data? > > -Derek >
