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 1G91me-0006Nt-5z for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:40:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k74Fc7oZ009802; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:38:07 GMT Received: from gateway3.delphi.com (gateway3.delphi.com [69.220.142.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k74Fa2a1032067 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 15:36:03 GMT Received: from USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.205]) by gateway3.delphi.com (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id EMA37979; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:36:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: from USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net ([144.250.174.199]) by USINKOK-MX05.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with InterScan Messaging Security Suite; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:36:01 -0400 Received: from [10.233.7.145] ([10.233.7.145]) by USINKOK-MX01.NorthAmerica.DelphiAuto.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:36:01 -0400 Message-ID: <44D36960.9050807@mid.message-center.info> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 From: Alexander Skwar User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060104 Thunderbird/1.0.7 Mnenhy/0.6.0.104 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type References: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> <44D2FF8F.3070209@mid.message-center.info> <200608041546.08546.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> In-Reply-To: <200608041546.08546.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Aug 2006 15:36:01.0505 (UTC) FILETIME=[B0971510:01C6B7DB] X-Archives-Salt: a2e3d960-4adb-4755-bba8-853b2e90653d X-Archives-Hash: 13ff7513cbceb59c2a00d0598d3cc6b1 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 10:04 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: >> Michael Crute wrote: >> > Is >> > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the >> > disk? >> >> Yes. Use fdisk to do so. Changing the part. types won't hurt >> the other partitions. > > Hmm, just curious: Is it really important for mkfs.* what the partition type > is? Not to my knowledge. Actually, there isn't even a part. type for reiserfs. And that also wouldn't make much sense, I think, because those are *PARTITION* types, while reiserfs is a *FILE* *SYSTEM* type. > Would they refuse to create a filesystem on say an NTFS partition? If > not, would I get into trouble later, if I forgot to change the type? I don't see how. Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a "NTFS partition" and then boot Windows? Alexander Skwar -- When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West, "Klondike Annie" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list