Not sure how I did this, but it happened before I upgraded to tumbleweed a couple of months ago, but I only noticed it now. On the partition in question, I had opensuse 42.2 installed, so I went in, changed all my repositories to tumbleweed, and did an online upgrade, and have been operating like that ever since. I noticed this morning while setting up my backups, that it turns out the partition type is "Microsoft basic data" but the file system type is ext4. -------------------- /home/george # gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 488397168 sectors, 232.9 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 5105ED88-0EA8-4BF5-B7B8-31C56BA1351E Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 488397134 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 2349 sectors (1.1 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 2048 52430847 25.0 GiB 8300 rootxtra 2 52430848 104859647 25.0 GiB 0700 roottw 3 104859648 488396799 182.9 GiB 0700 ntfsdata /home/george # mount | grep sda /dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime) /dev/sda3 on /mounters/ntfsdata type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096) ---------------------- First, I didn't know this was even possible, but apparently it is, because my system is running with partition 2 as the root drive. My first question is, is this likely to cause problems, and what kind of problems? My 2nd question is, how important is it to migrate my root over to another partition right away? -- George Box: 42.3 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Laptop #1: TW | Plasma 5.13 | AMD FX 7TH GEN | 64 | 32GB Laptop #2: 15.0 | KDE Plasma 5.8 | Core i5 | 64 | 8GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org