Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

[dg <dg@kaboom.spb.ru>]

On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote:
> On 8/3/06, dg <dg@kaboom.spb.ru> wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, 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)
> > >
> > > -Mike
> >
> > In addition to what others already suggested, it also would make sense to
> > actually change the partition type in the partition table:
> >         fdisk /dev/hda
> > then press "t" and type partition number (1 in your case), then 83 (Linux
> > Native) when asked for partition type.
>
> Right, this is exactly what I want to do but can I do it without
> seriously screwing up the disk? i.e. can I change the partition type
> without screwing up the existing partitions?
>
> -Mike
>
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Yes, you can change the partition type of /dev/hda1, it will not affect other 
partitions on /dev/hda. Just set it to Linux Native using fdisk and then mkfs 
it to ext3.

BR,
dmitri
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