No problem! Just reformat /dev/hda1. Doing this will not touch the other partitions. Of course, if you are booting off of /dev/hda1 now, this is problematic...
See the man page for mkfs for more info. Something like: mkfs -t ext2 -m1 /dev/hda1 -Joe Michael Crute wrote: > I have a laptop and when I initially setup the partitions I > anticipated that I would install Windoze along side of Linux for > gaming purposes, I now realize that this is never going to happen and > would like to change the partition type from NTFS to Linux Native. Is > it possible to do this without hurting the other partitions on the > disk? I really can't afford to re-format/re-install the whole machine > right now. > > The partition structure looks like this: > hda1 -> NTFS (unformatted, want to convert over to Linux Native + ext3) > hda2 -> Swap > hda3 -> Linux Native (formatted ext3 with Gentoo installed) > > -Mike > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list