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On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: |
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> On 8/3/06, dg <dg@××××××××××.ru> wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, 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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> > > |
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> > > -Mike |
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> > |
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> > In addition to what others already suggested, it also would make sense to |
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> > actually change the partition type in the partition table: |
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> > fdisk /dev/hda |
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> > then press "t" and type partition number (1 in your case), then 83 (Linux |
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> > Native) when asked for partition type. |
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> Right, this is exactly what I want to do but can I do it without |
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> seriously screwing up the disk? i.e. can I change the partition type |
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> without screwing up the existing partitions? |
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> -Mike |
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> -- |
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> ________________________________ |
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> Michael E. Crute |
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> http://mike.crute.org |
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> I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended |
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> up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams |
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Yes, you can change the partition type of /dev/hda1, it will not affect other |
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partitions on /dev/hda. Just set it to Linux Native using fdisk and then mkfs |
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it to ext3. |
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BR, |
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dmitri |
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