On Sunday 22 March 2026 at 19:34:25, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:

> Years ago when I partitioned, I was very careful to specify the
> partition type for each partiton. For example, /root was 8303,
> /boot was 8300, /usr was 8314, /var was 8310.

a) what do each of these numbers mean?

b) whwre di you get them from?

c) do they have any effect of the file system which you then format into the
partition?

> My question is, does the "defaults" option offered by fdisk
> automatically assign the type? Is the type important. Is it
> impotant?

What "defaults" option of fdisk? At what point in running fdisk do you get to
select this?

As far as I am aware, the type of a partition is for information use only and
what matters is the file system (or equivalent, such as swap space, Raid
device, LVM physical volume, etc) that's inside it.


Antony.

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