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No problem! |
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Just reformat /dev/hda1. Doing this will not touch the other |
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partitions. Of course, if you are booting off of /dev/hda1 now, this is |
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problematic... |
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See the man page for mkfs for more info. Something like: |
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mkfs -t ext2 -m1 /dev/hda1 |
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-Joe |
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Michael Crute wrote: |
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> I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I |
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> anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for |
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> gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and |
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> would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is |
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> it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the |
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> disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine |
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> right now. |
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> |
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> The partition structure looks like this: |
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> hda1 -> NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) |
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> hda2 -> Swap |
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> hda3 -> Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) |
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> -Mike |
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