Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>]

On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:52 -0400, Michael Crute wrote:
> I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I
> anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for
> gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and
> would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is
> it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the
> disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine
> right now.
> 
> The partition structure looks like this:
> hda1 -> NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3)
> hda2 -> Swap
> hda3 -> Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed)
> 
simple.

mkft.etx3 /dev/hda1

done.

it won;t affect anything. 

unless you want to have evrything as 1 big partition.

eg: had1 - linux
hda2 - swap

then u have more work .


> -Mike
> 
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Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com>

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