Re: changing partition type

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• From: Warren Sturm <wrsturm@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2005 13:16:40 -0700
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On Sun, 2005-12-25 at 19:57 +0100, Jean Maupertuis wrote:
> Can i change partitions type via fdisk (from ext3 to ext2) without 
> losing files?
> 

All you need to do is umount the partition then 

mount -t ext2 partition mountpoint

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