George from the tribe wrote:
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. [snip]
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.
It's very much possible - I'm not sure how much the partition type is really used anymore, but it certainly does not dictate which file systems you can use on a partition.
My first question is, is this likely to cause problems, and what kind of problems?
No and none.
My 2nd question is, how important is it to migrate my root over to another partition right away?
Not important at all. YOu could just use fdisk to revert the partition type to 0x83. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.4°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org