dumb question about fdisk

[Chanop Silpa-Anan]

On a good day of Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 05:35:32PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote

> Hi,
> 
> I have a disk which is running, mounted etc. and I want to change the bootable flag to another partition.  I change the flag then I have to "write table to disk and exit".  Will this destroy data on my disk?  I am suddenly reluctant to write the whole partition table just to toggle a bootable flag.  I can't find anything about this in the doco.

It is safe, IMO.

Chanop
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