[Coco] changing partition types using Linux

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at gmail.com
Sun Jun 20 15:09:31 EDT 2010


On Sunday 20 June 2010, Roger Taylor wrote:
>At 11:18 AM 6/20/2010, you wrote:
>>On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:14:49AM -0500, Roger Taylor wrote:
>> > Does anyone know how I can add other partition types to Fedora 13's
>> > list of predefined partition types in the disk manager GUI ?
>>
>>No idea, sorry...but, the venerable fdisk utility can change partition
>>types.  It is either relatively simple or completely impenetrable,
>>depending on your perspective.  :-)
>>
>>John
>>--
>
>Fdisk isn't doing it.  Some utilities won't recognize the MicroSD
>card/drive, and the ones that do don't have the partition type $DA listed.
>
Give gparted a shot Roger.  Its a bootable download iso.

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