The Type
field is based on the partition type GUIDs in your GPT partition table, and there is a lot of possible types.
Changing the partition type GUID using Linux fdisk
should not change the contents of the partition in any way. But based on the WARNING
message, your version of fdisk
seems to be a bit old, so you might want to be careful and take backups of any critical data first.
Basically what you'd need to do is:
# fdisk /dev/sda
[...]
Command (m for help): t
Partition number (1-3, default 3): 3
Hex code (type L to list all codes): L
<A long list is displayed...>
<Find the correct short code matching the "Linux filesystem" type GUID>
Hex code (type L to list all codes: <type the short code here>
Command (m for help): w
Your version of fdisk
may have some differences. This example was produced using:
# fdisk --version
fdisk from util-linux 2.29.2