"Gene E. Dascher" wrote: > > I want to reclaim some hard drive space from a Win98 drive to use with my RH6.1 setup. Here is how my system is currently set up: > > HDA: 500MB Win98 Root FAT Partition > 500MB WinNT4 Root FAT Partition > 1GB Win Swap/Shared FAT Partition > 2GB Win98 Games FAT32 Partition > 1GB Win98 Apps FAT32 Partition > 1GB Win98 Data FAT32 Partition > > HDB: 50MB Linux native /boot > 124MB Linux Swap > 1.5GB Linux Native / > 1GB Linux Native /home > 2GB WinNT4 NTFS Apps Partition > > What is the best way to reclaim the Win98 Games, Apps, and Data partitions to use for Linux? Any Hints???? > > Thanks, > > Gene Dascher > Systems Developer > Multi Service > (913) 663-9415 > gedascher@multiservice.com > If you don't want to keep the data in them, you can just use fdisk from within Linux and change the partition type to 83. Here's an example from a spare drive (pretend I have a windows partition): # fdisk /dev/sdc Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdc: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 329 cylinders Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdc1 1 329 336880 83 Linux Command (m for help): t Partition number (1-4): 1 Hex code (type L to list codes): L 0 Empty 16 Hidden FAT16 61 SpeedStor a6 OpenBSD 1 FAT12 17 Hidden HPFS/NTF 63 GNU HURD or Sys a7 NeXTSTEP 2 XENIX root 18 AST Windows swa 64 Novell Netware b7 BSDI fs 3 XENIX usr 24 NEC DOS 65 Novell Netware b8 BSDI swap 4 FAT16 <32M 3c PartitionMagic 70 DiskSecure Mult c1 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 5 Extended 40 Venix 80286 75 PC/IX c4 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 6 FAT16 41 PPC PReP Boot 80 Old Minix c6 DRDOS/sec (FAT- 7 HPFS/NTFS 42 SFS 81 Minix / old Lin c7 Syrinx 8 AIX 4d QNX4.x 82 Linux swap db CP/M / CTOS / . 9 AIX bootable 4e QNX4.x 2nd part 83 Linux e1 DOS access a OS/2 Boot Manag 4f QNX4.x 3rd part 84 OS/2 hidden C: e3 DOS R/O b Win95 FAT32 50 OnTrack DM 85 Linux extended e4 SpeedStor c Win95 FAT32 (LB 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux 86 NTFS volume set eb BeOS fs e Win95 FAT16 (LB 52 CP/M 87 NTFS volume set f1 SpeedStor f Win95 Ext'd (LB 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux 93 Amoeba f4 SpeedStor 10 OPUS 54 OnTrackDM6 94 Amoeba BBT f2 DOS secondary 11 Hidden FAT12 55 EZ-Drive a0 IBM Thinkpad hi fe LANstep 12 Compaq diagnost 56 Golden Bow a5 BSD/386 ff BBT 14 Hidden FAT16 <3 5c Priam Edisk Hex code (type L to list codes): 83 Command (m for help): w # mke2fs /dev/sdc1 mke2fs 1.14, 9-Jan-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 Linux ext2 filesystem format Filesystem label= 84336 inodes, 336880 blocks 16844 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 42 block groups 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 2008 inodes per group Superblock backups stored on blocks: 8193, 16385, 24577, 32769, 40961, 49153, 57345, 65537, 73729, 81921, 90113, 98305, 106497, 114689, 122881, 131073, 139265, 147457, 155649, 163841, 172033, 180225, 188417, 196609, 204801, 212993, 221185, 229377, 237569, 245761, 253953, 262145, 270337, 278529, 286721, 294913, 303105, 311297, 319489, 327681, 335873 Writing inode tables: done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done Now the disk is (again) usable by Linux. You could do the same with your drive. Hope this helps, Tony Hammitt