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
>
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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.
BR,
dmitri
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