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 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 -- [email protected] mailing list
