Re: /dev/hdc? and changing drive letters
From: H. S. (greatexcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/30/04
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 21:26:20 -0400
Apparently, _Paolo Alexis Falcone_, on 29/10/04 21:15,typed:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:31:21 -0400, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>On a given dual boot machine, Windowx XP and Debain (or any Linux for
>>that matter) and booting using Grub, what effect would changing a drive
>>letter in Windows have on the partition table, if any? I am just trying
>>to verify it won't mess with my Debian installation. All I want to do is
>>interchange D: and E: driver letters for two partitions (for sharing
>>data between Windows and Linux in an inituitive way -- mainly for non
>>techie users).
>
>
> Afaik the ways to interchange "drive letters" in win32 is to
> interchange the order of the drives as they are placed in the IDE bus,
> or repartition the drive.
>
> Effect on Linux -> device names would also change. This may have no
> visible to really visible repercussions depending on how you had both
> setup across partitions.
>
> At any rate, win32 is slowly leaving the unscalable solution that is
> drive letters to mount points that almost everybody else in the Unix
> (or -like) world does.
>
The drive is alread partitioned (hdc). The partitioning was done to get:
hdc2 as c:
hdc3 as d:
hdc5 as e:
Rest of the partitions, till hdc12, are used by Debian.
But when windows was started, I got:
hdc2 as c:
hdc3 as e:
hdc5 as d:
hdc3 and hdc5 are still empty and haven't been used yet. I just want to
interchange their letters in WinXP, make d: as e: and vice versa. I have
found out how to change drive letters, I am thinking of doing:
1) make d: as z:
2) make e: as d:
3) make z: as e:
IF this will have absolutely no effect on the MBR or the partition table
of the disk, I will do it right way. That is all I want to confirm.
->HS
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