Re: changing partition type
On Sat, Sep 21, 2002 at 03:12:25AM +0200, Alexander Stagun wrote:
> 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)
Yes, if you won't have any MacOS partitions, you don't need the driver
/ patch partitions either.
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