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08-14-2009

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Originally Posted by chompy

I would suggest you back up all the stuff on the Linux partition before you attempt to do this, as the bootloaders for Windows and Linux OSes notoriously don't get along. Smilie

Notoriously Microsoft installations don't get along with other OS' period!

I would say, have your linux bootable CD / DVD handy to fix the partition table after the Windows installer overwrites it.

My ultimate suggestion would be to stick with XP! It's stable (as MS OS's go -- oops, slip of the tongue) Smilie

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addpart

ADDPART(8)                                                     System Administration                                                    ADDPART(8)

NAME

       addpart - tell the kernel about the existence of a partition

SYNOPSIS

       addpart device partition start length

DESCRIPTION

       addpart  tells the Linux kernel about the existence of the specified partition.  The command is a simple wrapper around the "add partition"
       ioctl.

       This command doesn't manipulate partitions on a block device.

PARAMETERS

       device The disk device.

       partition
              The partition number.

       start  The beginning of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

       length The length of the partition (in 512-byte sectors).

SEE ALSO

       delpart(8), fdisk(8), parted(8), partprobe(8), partx(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The addpart command is part of the util-linux package and is available from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

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