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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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> 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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> ________________________________ |
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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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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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BR, |
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dmitri |
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