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quazifarhan

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 7

[SOLVED] Partition type value during Arch installation

Hello,

I was trying to install Arch Linux on my laptop. During the stage 4, preparing partitions, I need to set partition type before set mount point. But I cannot see any option for Ext4. All I see is Linux Extended. Can anyone give me a helping hand?

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by quazifarhan (2012-02-29 17:25:25)

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition type value during Arch installation

You will want type 0x83.  It is the partition type for ext2, ext3 and ext4.   Extended is used as a "wrapper" to allow more than four primary partitions.  You can put several non-primary partitions in an extended partition.

Here is my partition scheme:

Disk identifier: 0x87b33479

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048   121778159    60888056    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2       597366784   625135615    13884416   83  Linux
/dev/sda3       121778160   597366783   237794312    5  Extended
/dev/sda5   *   121778223   123770219      995998+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6       123770283   131770589     4000153+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7       193213818   597360959   202073571   83  Linux
/dev/sda8       131781258   193213754    30716248+  83  Linux
/dev/sda9       131770591   131781194        5302    1  FAT12

Note that sda2 and sda5 are the bootable partitions.  sda5 is ext2, sda7,8 are ext4.  sda3 wraps sda5,6,8 and 7

Last edited by ewaller (2012-02-29 04:34:39)

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quazifarhan

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] Partition type value during Arch installation

Thanks a lot. It is working now. Previously it was not being mounted on the next step.

DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition type value during Arch installation

Great.

You should mark it as solved. Edit the first post and change its title so that other people (including yourself sometimes) get to it more easily.

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