Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

Apparently, _Paolo Alexis Falcone_, on 29/10/04 21:15,typed:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0400, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On a given dual boot machine, Windowx XP and Debain (or any Linux for
> > that matter) and booting using Grub, what effect would changing a drive
> > letter in Windows have on the partition table, if any? I am just trying
> > to verify it won't mess with my Debian installation. All I want to do is
> > interchange D: and E: driver letters for two partitions (for sharing
> > data between Windows and Linux in an inituitive way -- mainly for non
> > techie users).
>
>
> Afaik the ways to interchange "drive letters" in win32 is to
> interchange the order of the drives as they are placed in the IDE bus,
> or repartition the drive.
>
> Effect on Linux -> device names would also change. This may have no
> visible to really visible repercussions depending on how you had both
> setup across partitions.
>
> At any rate, win32 is slowly leaving the unscalable solution that is
> drive letters to mount points that almost everybody else in the Unix
> (or -like) world does.

The drive is alread partitioned (hdc). The partitioning was done to get:

hdc2 as c:
hdc3 as d:
hdc5 as e:
Rest of the partitions, till hdc12, are used by Debian.

But when windows was started, I got:
hdc2 as c:
hdc3 as e:
hdc5 as d:

hdc3 and hdc5 are still empty and haven't been used yet. I just want to 
interchange their letters in WinXP, make d: as e: and vice versa. I have 
found out how to change drive letters, I am thinking of doing:
1) make d: as z:
2) make e: as d:
3) make z: as e:

IF this will have absolutely no effect on the MBR or the partition table 
of the disk, I will do it right way. That is all I want to confirm.

->HS