On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: > I want to change the type of hda1 from hurd to swap (or hurd swap > if such a beast exists). Will doing this erase all the data on my disk? hell yes :) well changing the type ID won't but if you intend to use the partition then you will have to do a mkswap onit and this will :) on the existance of HURD swap, checking the recognised types under fdisk shows the following
63 GNU HURD 82 Linux swap b8 BSDI swap but no HURD swap. :) Nikolai