[haiku-development] Re: Filesystem corruption and Alpha-1

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:31:21 -0700

On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Zenja Solaja<solaja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Today I've compiled a version of Haiku with ATA tracing turned on to get
> more verbose output for my chipset (nForce 590).  However, I've also noticed
> that from Zeta Drive Setup tool, the partition type says Linux Swap, even
> though it has been formatted as a BeFS (well, it obviously runs with the IDE

The partition type and filesystem do not have to be in sync. AFAIK,
Haiku doesn't actually care what the partition type is as long as the
filesystem is BFS.

Also, you could probably fix this easily by using linux fdisk to
change the partition type to 'eb'.

- Urias

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