On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 06:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yeah, Linux is quite good like that. Similar to the way most basic *nix
programs don't care about a file's extension, mount checks the signature
of
the file system from the first sector
On Thursday 26 February 2004 08:14, Grendel wrote:
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
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)
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Jason Stubbs uttered the following immortal words,
Yeah, Linux is quite good like that. Similar to the way most basic *nix
programs don't care about a file's extension, mount checks the signature of
the file system from the first sector (I believe) instead of blindly
Aaron Walker wrote:
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 08:16, Jason Stubbs wrote:
Why delete it?
You can create a file system directly in that partition.
Ie say you type
mkfs -t xfs /dev/hda1
That would create a xfs partition on /dev/had1 overwriting your ntfs.
Grendel's right in that you don't
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:51, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Have you thought of using LVM? I do not know you system layout, but you
can only have 4 primary partitions, one of these will probably be the
extended partition.
LVM allows you to have as many volumes as you need and even to resize
Quoting Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yeah, Linux is quite good like that. Similar to the way most basic *nix
programs don't care about a file's extension, mount checks the signature
of
the file system from the first sector (I believe) instead of blindly
believing (or even checking)
Hi,
but I've never really heard much about it
If you want to learn a little more about lvm try reading
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-lvm/
Huw
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 13:38, Aaron Walker wrote:
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 03:51, Christian Herzyk wrote:
Have you thought of
