On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Jason Stubbs uttered the following immortal words,
> Grendel's right in that you don't need to delete the partition and are able to > re-format it with whatever file system you want. Though if you do it that > way, you should also change the partition type from 7 (HPFS/NTFS) to 83 > (Linux). Yes, unfortunately I had forgotten to do this step, and my linux fs partition is still listed as ntfs. However linux doesnt seem to have any problem mounting it at all. I guess that the partition type maybe for identification purposes only? Grendel -- Grendels annoyance filter is so advanced it puts people to the killfile even before they have posted. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
