Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Saturday 2004-01-24 at 02:03 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
I now want to reformat at least 3 partions (say 2 on hda and 1 on hdc) as NTFS.
I understand that you are reformatting, no repartitioning.
If I altered fstab to reflect the partitions I want to reformat as NTFS file system BEFORE I exited Suse and then formatted them as NTFS would I have a problem in having them correctly recognised when I booted back into Suse?
It should be Ok, provided you umount them before editing fstab, and don't try to mount or reboot into linux before reformatng them. I would simply comment out those entries.
However... you must know that ntfs partitions are not writeable from linux, don't you?
Or would I need to do a pretend run of the partitioner after booting into Suse and read-in the partition table in case the beginning/ending sectors are altered by the reformatting?
Reformatting do not alters partition tables. And, in case you did, providing that linux partitions were not altered (or done correctly: not likely) and the number and order of partitions were maintained, you wouldn't have problems with linux.
And, if you have, just boot the CD rescue system, mount root ("/"), and edit fstab - with "vi", so you'd better learn how to use it. :-p
You may prevent some problems by commenting out most entries in the fstab file before doing changes.
Just to follow-up to this, the transformation of the partitions from FAT32 to NTFS worked flawlessly following your advice. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.