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 1G8kvj-00040H-PP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 21:40:36 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k73LcNIe007558; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:38:23 GMT Received: from wx-out-0102.google.com (wx-out-0102.google.com [66.249.82.207]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k73LZTJX014852 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 21:35:30 GMT Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id r21so1227827wxc for ; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:35:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Rc3KyYi9w5Dr8m25vjIQkdyLIiQ3Q4BKhfbUx9k4dtDYhcCBwo7JAjhuSfJV2KWsj7un8nf3HbVm6KigcOq/TKvkt3Nqsd/ChyrLngcOdgpggOHmt7xFCHz4u6uY3ZCIziPrgml42MamKcoaeMhBXn9L43u77/axIjcPzh7QfSo= Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr1142714hue; Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.160.16 with HTTP; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:35:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <558b73fb0608031435s17996a46n4983931870daafbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 17:35:29 -0400 From: "Michael Crute" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type In-Reply-To: <200608040059.17418.dg@kaboom.spb.ru> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <558b73fb0608031252x20ec2d17o7e46220473d5db15@mail.gmail.com> <200608040059.17418.dg@kaboom.spb.ru> X-Archives-Salt: 2cd82cb7-91d6-4fdf-9dda-fa539f3c7083 X-Archives-Hash: b84a572a74f27bc39b5dff24e3fd8e47 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list