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From: Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 13:56:31
Message-Id: 200608041546.08546.ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type by Alexander Skwar
1 Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 10:04 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar:
2 > Michael Crute wrote:
3 > > Is
4 > > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the
5 > > disk?
6 >
7 > Yes. Use fdisk to do so. Changing the part. types won't hurt
8 > the other partitions.
9
10 Hmm, just curious: Is it really important for mkfs.* what the partition type
11 is? Would they refuse to create a filesystem on say an NTFS partition? If
12 not, would I get into trouble later, if I forgot to change the type?
13
14 Bye...
15
16 Dirk
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Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>