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Actually, there was a bug in PM at one point that created partitions with the wrong FS type in the partition table. This was a canned answer at RHAT at the time I worked there (2 years ago) but I do not know if PM has since fixed said bug. PM has also been known (in the past) to trash partition tables to the point of no return with any OS (winnt/linux/dos). Again, this was in the past and I have used to most recent version (PM6) without any problems to migrate a win2k/win98 system from one machine to another without any problems. As PM themselves say, make sure you have a backup of all your important data before using their product.

All I can say is I used PM on a 486 that has RH, OpenLinux, Win95 and Win3.1 on it and haven't had any problems with it. I also used PM on another computer (Pentium 133) that is running 4 Win98 OS's, plus Mandrake & CorelLinux and haven't had any problems with that. All I can say is that if PM sets up a partition with the wrong filesystem on it, I think that is something that you are going to notice pretty quickly.