I know that partition types do something, as there are windows hidden
partition types which are different from the standard windows partition
types.&nbsp; Other than that I'm as curious as you.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/10/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arturo</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:sedoa@raytheon.com">sedoa@raytheon.com</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi all,<br>I have a bunch of linux boxes that have the swap partitions that are not<br>of type swap. They are type linux. The OS seems to be swapping just fine<br>on this partition type.<br><br>Some machines have swap partition that look like this from fdisk
<br><br>/dev/hda6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
50810&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 52890&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1048792+&nbsp;&nbsp;82&nbsp;&nbsp;Linux swap<br><br>Other machines have swap partitions that look like this.<br><br>/dev/hda6&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
50810&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 52890&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1048792+&nbsp;&nbsp;83&nbsp;&nbsp;Linux<br><br>Does anyone have experience with why it would or wouldn't cause issues?<br>Does anyone know what it means to have a partition of type x or y? Is<br>there a difference or is having a partition type mostly there for
<br>humans.<br>I would have thought that the partition just defined the limits.<br>Everything else depends on what you do with the partition as far as<br>formatting and defining inodes/FATs and labels...<br><br>Any ideas?
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