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From: Natarajan K <natarajan_k@hotpop.com>
To: ILUGC <ilugc@aero.iitm.ernet.in>
Cc: Linux Newbie <linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Partitioning
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 20:58:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200208092058.34055.natarajan_k@hotpop.com> (raw)

HI,
	I tried changing an existing dos partition into a ext2 one using mkfs.ext2 
and mk2efs. 
 # mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda7
But the partition type is still FAT 32 when I use fdisk(in Linux). I am not 
able to mount it as a FAT partition though. If I delete the partition then my 
partition numbers get changed i.e. 
If I am delete /dev/hda7 -- FAT 32 (mentioned above)
then the following happens
/dev/hda8 -----> /dev/hda9 (Linux swap)
/dev/hda9 -----> /dev/hda8 (ext2)

The /dev/hda9 partition houses LInux. If the partition number changes then I 
may need to run LILO again. But is there no other way out to convert the 
existing FAT partition to an ext2 partition.
-- 
Natarajan
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             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-10  0:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-10  0:58 Natarajan K [this message]
2002-08-09 15:52 ` Partitioning Ray Olszewski
2002-08-09 18:31 ` Partitioning Riley Williams
2002-08-10  4:52 ` [Ilugc] Partitioning P. Sriram
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-01-25 13:37 partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-25 16:08 ` partitioning chuck
2004-01-25 16:42 ` partitioning Ray Olszewski
2004-01-25 16:53   ` partitioning S. Barret Dolph
2004-01-26  0:27 ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-26 15:04   ` partitioning Hal MacArgle
2004-01-26 17:16     ` partitioning Ken Moffat
2004-01-27 19:16       ` partitioning Hal MacArgle
2004-01-27 20:19         ` partitioning pa3gcu
2005-04-07 14:18 Partitioning smertz
2005-04-07 14:32 Partitioning Mike Turcotte
2005-04-07 16:02 ` Partitioning smertz
2005-04-07 16:50   ` Partitioning James Miller

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