[CLUE-Tech] question about fdisk

[Tom Poindexter]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 01:42:53PM -0600, dahanson at thegeek.nu wrote:
> Without going into too much detail, I need to remove a BSD disklabel from my 
> hard drives. fdisk contains all the commands and options for creating BSD 
> disklabels, but no information on how to *remove* them. Does anyone know which 
> option, or perhaps which command, I need to use to remove a BSD disklabel? 
> 


just use fdisk to write over the partition type with a new type.
e.g.:
fdisk /dev/hda
t	<< change partition type command
x	<< your partition you want to change, use command 'l' for list of types
83	<< linux ext2/3 type 
w

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