convert a logical partition to a primary partition
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Hello,
Fedora 14 xfce
I have the following partition setup. I would like to know how can I convert the logical partition sda6 to a primary partition.
Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders, total 625142448 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1707a8a5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 205844479 102409216 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 205844480 214228991 4192256 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda4 214228992 625141759 205456384 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 214231040 573562879 179665920 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 573564928 625141759 25788416 7 HPFS/NTFS
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 97G 5.0G 91G 6% /
tmpfs 494M 176K 494M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 68M 392M 15% /boot
/dev/sda5 169G 26G 135G 16% /home
# partition table of /dev/sda
unit: sectors
/dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 1024000, Id=83
/dev/sda2 : start= 1026048, size=204818432, Id=83
/dev/sda3 : start=205844480, size= 8384512, Id=82
/dev/sda4 : start=214228992, size=410912768, Id= 5
/dev/sda5 : start=214231040, size=359331840, Id=83
/dev/sda6 : start=573564928, size= 51576832, Id= 7
I would like to convert sda6 to a primary partition, the reason for this it to install windows 7 starter.
Many thanks for any suggestions,
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