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Asked: 2022-01-30 13:27:41 +0800 CST

Different output of parted and fdisk

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I have a strange CentOS behaviour, When I type parted -l command on my server I got following results :

Model: DELL PERC H730P Adp (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 5758GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: pmbr_boot

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name  Flags
 1      1049kB  3146kB  2097kB                        bios_grub
 2      3146kB  1077MB  1074MB  ext4
 3      1077MB  5749GB  5748GB  ext4
 4      5749GB  5758GB  8590MB  linux-swap(v1)

And everything seems to be fine but when I check the same with fdisk -l I got :

Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk label type: gpt
Disk identifier: 79700B71-AB44-4ED5-95EC-0FE5E3C0CF1D


#         Start          End    Size  Type            Name
 1         2048         6143      2M  BIOS boot       
 2         6144      2103295      1G  Microsoft basic 
 3      2103296  11229198335    5.2T  Microsoft basic 
 4  11229198336  11245975551      8G  Linux swap

As you can see types of filesystems are different in each cases and it bothers me a lot.
Who can explain me what causes such diverse in output results ?
Thanks in advance

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The difference is, that parted shows the file system, and fdisk shows the partition type.

    There is no discrepancy here.

    • partition type: Microsoft basic
    • filesytem: ext4

    Microsoft basic is technically not the correct type for a Linux partition, there is Linux filesystem for that, but practically that doesn't really make a difference.

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