Excellent question! The “t” command in fdisk basically just sets the type field in the partition table but does not actually put a filesystem on that partition. Thats why you still need to perform mkfs. Thanks for watching and for the great comment!
Great video, congrats. Your video really helped me understand this confusing concepts. I just have a clumsy question: can you have a partition type 7 (NTFS) and make the file system as, for instance, Ext4?
Thanks for watching and thanks for the positive comment! You pose a really good question!! The short answer is yes, sometimes. You can have a partition type 7 (NTFS) but then format that partition to something else like EXT4. Linux wont care and will be able to mount and read/write that EXT4 partition. BUT.... Windows does care and is a lot more particular about the partitioning type and the actual filesystem. So if your type and formatting does not match, Windows can exhibit issues with being able to work with that partition.
Thank you very much for the great video on partitioning. I am new to Linux and what I know is that the primary is for the software Linux if I am not mistaken. So why do you need more than 1 primary partition? Recently, I completely deleted windows 10 and installed ubuntu. Now, I want to partition my storage, so how many parts is the optimal? Is it possible to do it following your tutorial? Thank you.
You can absolutely follow my tutorial to partition and format your drive. The reason why people have multiple partitions used to be because they would have one partition for the operating system (Windows) and then a separate partition for their data in case Windows gets corrupted, they still have their data. This became less and less useful as drives got cheaper and then the cloud. Then people also used multiple partitions if they wanted to multi-boot their system to Windows, Mac, different distros of Linux etc. Hope this answers your question.
Great stuff.
I like that you go in depth as much ax you can.
Thanks for watching and making positive comments!
Hello why we have to use mkfs to setup the filesystem even if we set one with the "t" command in fdisk ?
Great video keep going !
Excellent question! The “t” command in fdisk basically just sets the type field in the partition table but does not actually put a filesystem on that partition. Thats why you still need to perform mkfs.
Thanks for watching and for the great comment!
Great video, congrats. Your video really helped me understand this confusing concepts. I just have a clumsy question: can you have a partition type 7 (NTFS) and make the file system as, for instance, Ext4?
Thanks for watching and thanks for the positive comment!
You pose a really good question!! The short answer is yes, sometimes. You can have a partition type 7 (NTFS) but then format that partition to something else like EXT4. Linux wont care and will be able to mount and read/write that EXT4 partition.
BUT.... Windows does care and is a lot more particular about the partitioning type and the actual filesystem. So if your type and formatting does not match, Windows can exhibit issues with being able to work with that partition.
Thank you very much for the great video on partitioning. I am new to Linux and what I know is that the primary is for the software Linux if I am not mistaken. So why do you need more than 1 primary partition? Recently, I completely deleted windows 10 and installed ubuntu. Now, I want to partition my storage, so how many parts is the optimal? Is it possible to do it following your tutorial?
Thank you.
You can absolutely follow my tutorial to partition and format your drive.
The reason why people have multiple partitions used to be because they would have one partition for the operating system (Windows) and then a separate partition for their data in case Windows gets corrupted, they still have their data. This became less and less useful as drives got cheaper and then the cloud. Then people also used multiple partitions if they wanted to multi-boot their system to Windows, Mac, different distros of Linux etc. Hope this answers your question.
@@BlueMonkey4n6 thank you very much for explaining. Definitely!