[Coco] changing partition types using Linux

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Mon Jun 21 00:03:46 EDT 2010


At 02:09 PM 6/20/2010, you wrote:
>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.



I fired up The Ultimate Boot CD which has so much stuff it makes my 
head spin, but I haven't found the app yet on there that will do what I need.
I've tried "parted" but not "gparted".  I'll keep looking.


-- 
~ Roger Taylor




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