i had a windows 2003 server which i have recently converted to Fedora Core release 4

the install basically used the first hdd (as i told it to) and the remaining three hd's still had the original 'dynamic disc NTFS' format on them from Windows 2003 server.

I wanted to format all the other three hd's to Ext3 filesystem (for journalling) and to do so i had to first change the partition info from the SFS filesystem to LINUX

here's the output before i did anything




so above, as you can see,. /dev/hda1 is already in linux format (actually it's a LVM logical volume manager format which Fedora Core defaults to) and i want to change the other three hd's from SFS (dynamic disks in windows 2003 server) to Ext3 linux.

first off, i need to re-partition the hard disc's one by one, so i started with /dev/hdb

login as root and do this



you will now be given some info like this

now type the letter 't' as follows:-



and now tell it what filesystem you want (83=linux)



finally you need to write those changes so do that with a simple 'w'




to verify that the changes are made as root do



as you see below, /dev/hdb is now type 83=linux




ok, now that's all done, you need to format the hdd to your chosen filesystem, i chose ext3 and this is how i did it



it won't take long, and once done you'll see something like this scroll by,,

and that's it, only two more hdd's to go !

thanks to znx and omegaevil for assistance with this, and below please see the 5 line version of this howto ;-)



cheers
anyweb

Good tutorial anyweb