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 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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