Bug 478470

Summary: Failing to update fstab when recreating partition
Product: [Applications] partitionmanager Reporter: tyrunur
Component: generalAssignee: Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 23.08.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description tyrunur 2023-12-13 11:05:46 UTC 
SUMMARY
I had some old NTFS partitions I wanted to convert to EXT4. As converting them directly isn't possible, I deleted the partition and re-created it with the same name but using EXT4. That left fstab with the filesystem type unchanged.
That should have been the only thing changed in the fstab line, as everything else about the partition remained the same.

EXPECTED RESULT
fstab should be updated correctly

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Garuda Linux 
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.10
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.112.0
Qt Version: 5.15.11
Kernel Version: 6.6.6-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 1 Andrius Štikonas 2023-12-13 15:24:00 UTC 
You need to manually update fstab (possibly using built-in fstab editor partition manager). Updating fstab automatically as you want is next to impossible to do safely without extra context that human has.