On 05/08/2017 15:52, Carlos E. R. wrote:
But in fdisk on my gpt partitioned disk "l" lists a host of partition types including several linux ones, why would you use "11 Microsoft basic data" for a linux file system? /I/ did not do it. Linux tools did it. Gparted, actually. And in other cases, the openSUSE install DVD does it.
I did not see any place to change it. I looked now with gparted, the "Microsoft basic data" is not even displayed. No way to change it. I don't have an empty disk to try. I usually use fdisk and mkfs to set up disks, maybe it's a bug that gparted uses a microsoft partition type, I must experiment some time when I get a new disk. Quoted from wikepedia: All modern PC operating systems support GPT. Some, including macOS and Microsoft Windows on x86, support booting from GPT partitions only on systems with EFI firmware, but FreeBSD and most Linux distributions can boot from GPT partitions on systems with both legacy BIOS firmware interface and EFI.
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