dumb question about fdisk

[Paul Bryan]

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Using fdisk to write partitions is non-destructive. Not like the DOS version.

I've deleted a FAT partition on a drive and replaced it with an linux 
partition. The filesystem was still there (it mounted as a FAT partition with 
all the files still intact) and I had to mkfs to create a new ext2 filesystem 
on the partition.

This was when I'd just started using Linux and it took me a little while to 
figure out why I couldn't mount the partition as an ext2 filesystem.

That's how non-destructive it is!!

Paul.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 17:35, 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.
>
> Kim

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