On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:16, Jason Stubbs wrote:Have you thought of using LVM? I do not know you system layout, but you can only have 4 primary partitions, one of these will probably be the extended partition.
Why delete it?Grendel's right in that you don't need to delete the partition and are able to re-format it with whatever file system you want. Though if you do it that way, you should also change the partition type from 7 (HPFS/NTFS) to 83 (Linux). You can do this by:
You can create a file system directly in that partition.
Ie say you type
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda1
That would create a xfs partition on /dev/had1 overwriting your ntfs.
To answer Grendel, the reason I want to delete it is because I don't
want all 25GB on one partition. I'd like to maybe split that in half,
and use half of it for Gentoo, and then install FreeBSD on the other
half of that space, so that I have a BSD variant to test some code on.
LVM allows you to have as many volumes as you need and even to resize them. Setting them up is quite easy and quick.
Christian
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
