Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Freitag, 4. August 2006 10:04 schrieb ext Alexander Skwar: >> Michael Crute wrote: >> > Is >> > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the >> > disk? >> >> Yes. Use fdisk to do so. Changing the part. types won't hurt >> the other partitions. > > Hmm, just curious: Is it really important for mkfs.* what the partition type > is?
Not to my knowledge. Actually, there isn't even a part. type for reiserfs. And that also wouldn't make much sense, I think, because those are *PARTITION* types, while reiserfs is a *FILE* *SYSTEM* type. > Would they refuse to create a filesystem on say an NTFS partition? If > not, would I get into trouble later, if I forgot to change the type? I don't see how. Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a "NTFS partition" and then boot Windows? Alexander Skwar -- When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West, "Klondike Annie" -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list