changing partition type

["Alexander Stagun" <alex@ascii-park.net>]

Hi,

I decided that I don't need that MacOSX partition on my dual boot
ibook anymore. Is it safe to delete that partition (/dev/hda9) and
re-create a linux partition there instead? I am not quite sure,
because the partition map looks quite, uhm, interesting with all that
Apple driver stuff..


ibook01:/home/alex# fdisk -l /dev/hda
        #                    type name                ( size )
/dev/hda1     Apple_partition_map Apple               ( 31.5k)
/dev/hda2          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh           ( 28.0k)
/dev/hda3          Apple_Driver43 Macintosh           ( 28.0k)
/dev/hda4        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh           ( 28.0k)
/dev/hda5        Apple_Driver_ATA Macintosh           ( 28.0k)
/dev/hda6          Apple_FWDriver Macintosh           (256.0k)
/dev/hda7      Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh           (256.0k)
/dev/hda8           Apple_Patches Patch Partition     (256.0k)
/dev/hda9               Apple_HFS MacOS X             (  9.9G)
/dev/hda10        Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap           (800.0k)
/dev/hda11        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 swap                (512.0M)
/dev/hda12        Apple_UNIX_SVR2 root                (  8.2G)


Regards

-- 
Alexander Stagun