Changing 232.9 NTFS hd to EXT3

[Ted Hilts]

Thorny wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:21:30 -0700, Ted Hilts posted:
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>> [...]  I don't think the physical location and physical order of the hard
>> drives is of any importance but rather the label of the hard drive is
>> probably what the kernel looks for.
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> You may mount drives using the device node (i.e. /dev/sd(x) or Label
> (which you can give it when you format it or later) or UUID which is given
> it at format. You might want to have a look at the directory /dev/disk/
> and/or the command blkid. Perhaps you would also benefit from reading the
> manual page for mount.
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>> (3) Also, in my case, "/" is on it's own partition and the hard drive
>> label designation could be labeled sda1 regardless of it's previous
>> windows XP designation.  (4) Also it has occurred to me that I will have
>> to change /etc/fstab to get rid of the windows designation of the hard
>> drive I am converting so that the Linux designation of that drive
>> replaces it.
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> Yep, fstab needs to point to the right designation.
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> Just to be clear, sda is the device node not the label but, probably, you
> were using label in a generic sense.
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>> (5) Also, if I use the designation sda1 it would not be set as ACTIVE as
>> it would be if  "/"
>> (system root) was placed on it.
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> Grub doesn't care about which partition is set as active, that is
> something that was necessary for DOS/Windows MBRs.
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Thorny

Thanks for your input and suggestions.

Ted