Re: another personal strike against Windows
Miguel Cruz (mnc@diana.law.yale.edu)
Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:07:05 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, chimera wrote:
> Months ago, when I reformatted my hard drive to install Linux, I left a
> partition on it for Windows, thinking that one day I might want to have
> it. But I have found that I DON'T, and I'd like to actually make use of
> the hard disk space I was about to waste on microsoft. Problem is, I
> can't find advice about how to reformat that one partition without
> reinstalling or updating Linux, neither of which I really want to do. I
> figure all I would really have to do is format that one part for Linux,
> tell the partition table it's a Linux partition, and maybe I'd need to
> mount it? But I don't know how to do this outside of the Linux install
> program.
> Do any of you know a safe way I can do this without killing the rest of my
> system?
Very easy. Just use fdisk to change the partition type to 'linux native'
(83), make a directory to serve as the mount point, add the partition to
/etc/fstab (use 'man fstab' to see the syntax), and then run 'mke2fs' on
it. All done.
miguel