#17050: DriveSetup does not change partition type when reformatting existing
partition
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Reporter: mr-victory | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: | Version: R1/Development
Applications/DriveSetup | Keywords: drivesetup partition
Resolution: | type filesystem
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: All |
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Comment (by mr-victory):
The approach of not touching the partition type is very interesting...
High end tools that I know (diskmgmt.msc, GParted) which are aware of
partitions and ''filesystems'' set the partition type accordingly when a
partition is formatted. This is the default behavior.
Low end tools like fdisk cam also change the partition type but cannot
format the partition because they do not know what a filesystem is! After
using a tool like fdisk, (under Linux) usually a mkfs.<filesystem-type>
utility is used which formats the given device but does not know what a
partition is.
DriveSetup can work with both partitions and filesystems so I expected it
to take care of the partition type. If the intended behaviour is to not
change the partition type, then I requested for a change.
I tried changing an existing Haiku/BFS partition's type to NTFS and
booting Windows 10 on real hardware without drivers for BFS. The partition
was assigned a drive letter and the filesystem type showed up as RAW
(unformatted) on diskmgmt.msc. I also have BTRFS partitions on the hard
drive and they do not have a drive letter. Then I could boot to Haiku
without any problems.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/17050#comment:2>
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