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#1 2010-11-02 01:46:25

Mais
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From: San Luis Obispo, California
Registered: 2008-02-18
Posts: 14

EXT4 Mounted Partition shows as HPFS/NTFS

I recently converted my big storage drives away from NTFS because I no longer have a Windows partition. Both partitions mount just fine as ext4 and I've been using them to great success. However, I just noticed that Grub does not recognize one of them and went searching for why. As it turns out, one of them is still flagged as NTFS.

fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000dd068

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1              63   976575284   488287611   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2       976575285  1953520064   488472390    7  HPFS/NTFS <-------------

cat /etc/mtab:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/media ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0   
/dev/sdb2 /mnt/media2 ext4 rw,commit=0 0 0  <---------------

Can I set this System flag to 83 without endangering my partition?

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#2 2010-11-02 01:52:03

djgera
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From: Buenos Aires - Argentina
Registered: 2008-12-24
Posts: 723
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Re: EXT4 Mounted Partition shows as HPFS/NTFS

you has converted the partition content but not the partition identifier, just change it in fdisk (t,2,83,w,q)

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