I know that partition types do something, as there are windows hidden partition types which are different from the standard windows partition types. Other than that I'm as curious as you. On 5/10/05, Arturo <sedoa@raytheon.com> wrote:
Hi all, I have a bunch of linux boxes that have the swap partitions that are not of type swap. They are type linux. The OS seems to be swapping just fine on this partition type.
Some machines have swap partition that look like this from fdisk
/dev/hda6 50810 52890 1048792+ 82 Linux swap
Other machines have swap partitions that look like this.
/dev/hda6 50810 52890 1048792+ 83 Linux
Does anyone have experience with why it would or wouldn't cause issues? Does anyone know what it means to have a partition of type x or y? Is there a difference or is having a partition type mostly there for humans. I would have thought that the partition just defined the limits. Everything else depends on what you do with the partition as far as formatting and defining inodes/FATs and labels...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Arturo
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