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/home partition showing up as swap instead of ext4

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https://bbs.archlinux.org – Hi,I just installed Arch and tried to use an existing partition (/dev/sda2) as my /home but now arch is seeing that partition as swap space.  I swear I clicked no during the installation when it was asking me about setting the format of each partition but it is possible that I made a mistake.  Could someone help me by looking at the following output from fdisk and fstab?fdisk -l: $ sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders, total 78165360 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes (HowTos)

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I had:

Software:

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Hardware

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