Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
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. Alexander Skwar -- A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
On Friday 04 August 2006 01:35, Michael Crute wrote: On 8/3/06, dg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, 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) -Mike In addition to what others already suggested, it also would make sense to actually change the partition type in the partition table: fdisk /dev/hda then press t and type partition number (1 in your case), then 83 (Linux Native) when asked for partition type. Right, this is exactly what I want to do but can I do it without seriously screwing up the disk? i.e. can I change the partition type without screwing up the existing partitions? -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 Yes, you can change the partition type of /dev/hda1, it will not affect other partitions on /dev/hda. Just set it to Linux Native using fdisk and then mkfs it to ext3. BR, dmitri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type [OT]
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 17:36:00 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hm - UNTESTED: What happens, if you've got a JFS on a NTFS partition and then boot Windows? It's probably being reported as non-formatted media. Windows will offer to format it, then. Click OK, and your shiny JFS is gone :-) -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
No problem! Just reformat /dev/hda1. Doing this will not touch the other partitions. Of course, if you are booting off of /dev/hda1 now, this is problematic... See the man page for mkfs for more info. Something like: mkfs -t ext2 -m1 /dev/hda1 -Joe 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) -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Change Partition Type
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:52, 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) -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 In addition to what others already suggested, it also would make sense to actually change the partition type in the partition table: fdisk /dev/hda then press t and type partition number (1 in your case), then 83 (Linux Native) when asked for partition type. BR, dmitri -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
