Partitioning tools and ext4?

[Tim]

On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 08:44 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
> As far as I know, in LINUX, the filesystem created in a partition is 
> independent from the type of the partition, so you can create a 
> partition as Linux partition ('83') and format as ext4 FS. Please 
> correct me if that's wrong ;-)

I seem to recall that when it comes to formatting a partition, your
partition type can be used to determine the default file system to be
used (which you can, of course, change).

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