From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8jUI-00061S-M0 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:08:11 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k73K3b9L019330; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:03:37 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net ([129.253.1.90]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73JwGZn021779 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 19:58:17 GMT Received: from neuromancer.home.net (neuromancer.home.net [127.0.0.1]) by neuromancer.home.net (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73JvDK9031018 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:57:13 -0700 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type From: Ow Mun Heng To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> References: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:57:13 -0700 Message-Id: <1154635033.27366.59.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0c9badee-9bc0-4b4f-a34f-9fbdc5501c54 X-Archives-Hash: 7b6064e6e6b1286c6953f37feb66e5bf 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 > > -- > ________________________________ > Michael E. Crute > http://mike.crute.org > > I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended > up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- Ow Mun Heng -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list