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
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.