From: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:58:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44D2555F.8000804@skyrush.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com>
No problem!
Just reformat /dev/hda1. Doing this will not touch the other
partitions. Of course, if you are booting off of /dev/hda1 now, this is
problematic...
See the man page for mkfs for more info. Something like:
mkfs -t ext2 -m1 /dev/hda1
-Joe
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
>
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-03 19:52 [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type Michael Crute
2006-08-03 19:57 ` Ow Mun Heng
2006-08-03 19:58 ` Joe Peterson [this message]
2006-08-03 20:59 ` dg
2006-08-03 21:35 ` Michael Crute
2006-08-03 21:57 ` dg
2006-08-03 21:59 ` Neil Bothwick
2006-08-04 3:40 ` Randy Barlow
2006-08-04 8:04 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-08-04 13:29 ` [gentoo-user][SOLVED] " Michael Crute
2006-08-04 13:46 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2006-08-04 15:36 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-08-04 20:20 ` [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT] Hans-Werner Hilse
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