Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-04 Thread 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. Alexander Skwar -- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. --

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-04 Thread dg
On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: On 8/3/06, dg [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]

2006-08-04 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a NTFS partition and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click OK, and your shiny JFS is

[gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-03 Thread Michael Crute
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-03 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:52 -0400, 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Peterson
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type

2006-08-03 Thread dg
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