On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:52 -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I > anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for > gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and > would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the > disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine > right now. > > The partition structure looks like this: > hda1 -> NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) > hda2 -> Swap > hda3 -> Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) > simple.
mkft.etx3 /dev/hda1 done. it won;t affect anything. unless you want to have evrything as 1 big partition. eg: had1 - linux hda2 - swap then u have more work . > -Mike > > -- > ________________________________ > Michael E. Crute > http://mike.crute.org > > I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended > up where I intended to be. --Douglas Adams -- Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
