Partition Type in fdisk

From: Marc Shapiro (mshapiro_42_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/11/05

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    I have two partitions that were originally created and formatted as FAT
    (one FAT16 and the other FAT32). Both have since been reformatted at
    ext3. If I mount them without specifying the formatting and then run
    mount to display the mounted partitions they show as ext3. No surprises
    there. If I run fdisk, however, it still shows the original partition
    type. I guess reformatting does not change that. My question is
    whether the reverse is also true. Can I go into fdisk and change only
    the partition type (just to get everything in sync again) without
    messing things up. One of those partitions is my fake_windows partition
    for wine and I really don't want to mess it up because it always takes
    too much effort to get wine working again when it gets fubar. 

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Marc Shapiro
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