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On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:52 -0400, 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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> 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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simple. |
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mkft.etx3 /dev/hda1 |
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done. |
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it won;t affect anything. |
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unless you want to have evrything as 1 big partition. |
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eg: had1 - linux |
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hda2 - swap |
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then u have more work . |
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> -Mike |
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> ________________________________ |
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> Michael E. Crute |
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> http://mike.crute.org |
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> up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams |
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