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lilsirecho

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Install discrepancy in archlinux 2009.02 USB .img

Whereas the normal forum to place this info is installation, I have related info regarding the installed ext4 partitions which are misidentified.

In gparted, the HDD in ext4 has three partitons ID'ed, the boot partition is identified as ext2, the root and home are identified as ext4.

In cfdisk these partitions are identified as ext3 on the same HDD.  The boot partition is also ext2.

I assume that the boot partition is always ext2 from these data but am not certain if it is supposed to be true for the new 2009.02 release.

Obviously there is a discrepancy when attempting to analyze the partitions with utility tools.

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Re: Install discrepancy in archlinux 2009.02 USB .img

cfdisk don't really know about the filesystem. It's a pure portion tool, it don't handles filesystems. And when it comes to what filesystem you got on your paritons, it has whatever _you_ created on the partitions.

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lilsirecho

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Re: Install discrepancy in archlinux 2009.02 USB .img

Those who use cfdisk will get either a correct answer or an incorrect answer for the parameter posted for the filesystem which is a data element in the utility.

Those who use gparted will either get a correct answer or an incorrect answer for the parameter for the filesystem which is a data element for this utility.

Its the same old story...which is correct?

Your comment says it doesn't matter but if you are interested in that parameter it does matter>>

EDIT:  If it doesn't matter, the data should not be provided!!!

Last edited by lilsirecho (2009-02-25 18:23:45)

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bender02

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Re: Install discrepancy in archlinux 2009.02 USB .img

It seems to me that this has nothing to do with the archlinux installation, it's a pure cfdisk problem - it doesn't recognize ext4 yet (more precisely, it sees it as ext3). Your best bet is to file a bug report (or feature request) with cfdisk devs.

Last edited by bender02 (2009-02-25 18:50:54)