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 1G95Pt-0006K2-Tl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 19:33:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k74JV04E022886; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:31:00 GMT Received: from mx1.spbtlg.ru (mx1.spbtlg.ru [213.158.0.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k74JStfD013717 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 19:28:55 GMT Received: from alpha.local (166adsl62spb.ptn.ru [80.88.62.166]) by mx1.spbtlg.ru (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k73Lm4nK014855 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:48:04 +0400 Received: from beta.local (dlink.dmz [192.168.2.2]) by alpha.local (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k73LvDL8005151 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:57:13 +0400 From: dg To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 01:57:16 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> <200608040059.17418.dg@kaboom.spb.ru> <558b73fb0608031435s17996a46n4983931870daafbe@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0608031435s17996a46n4983931870daafbe@mail.gmail.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608040157.16174.dg@kaboom.spb.ru> X-Antivirus: Dr.Web (R) for Mail Servers on mx1.spbtlg.ru host X-Antivirus-Code: 100000 X-Spam-Flag: SKIP X-Spam-Yversion: Spamooborona 1.5.0_isp X-Archives-Salt: e64773d6-436b-48b8-9bcc-a4d9a0e10dc2 X-Archives-Hash: 4f0a4a96515787ed6aac4ae73fd75f05 On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/3/06, dg 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 > > -- > ________________________________ > 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 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list