Re: mkfs'ing wrong patition

John-Paul Stewart wrote:

The partition type as shown by fdisk has nothing to do with the file
system on that partition. You can (and probably do!) have an ext2/3
file system on a partition of NTFS type.

Correct... there isn't even a mkfs.ntfs

from man mkfs:

-t fstype
Specifies the type of file system to be built. If not specified, the
default file system type (currently ext2) is used.


fdisk is just showing the partition ID


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