On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:04, Maciej wrote: > Hi all, > > I backed up my files and now want to remove the 60 GB windowz partition > and give my / partition all the GB's. How can I do this? > > fdisk -l > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 7965 63974061+ 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/hda2 7966 7977 96390 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 7978 8042 522112+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda4 8043 9729 13550827+ 83 Linux > > -- > Kind regards, > Maciej > -- > m.mail@xxxxx > > ######################################### > # WARNING: New to Linux since May 2005! # > ######################################### I did the same thing a couple months ago. Only difference for me was that I was removing two partitions. This should apply for you and this assumes you're using LVM. Not sure if there's an easier way to do it or not, but this was pretty easy. I also had to do some searching to figure out exactly how to do a couple of these things. I would back your stuff up somehow to be safe! Here's basically what was given to me in March from this list: "You are using LVM; there is no need to do anything drastic. Change the partition types of hda1 to "Linux LVM". Then do: # pvcreate /dev/hda1 You will now be able to use "vgextend" to add /dev/hda1 to your existing logical volume (VolGroup00 by default): # vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/hda1 "vgdisplay" should then show that you have additional 60G of free space in your volume group, which you can add to your existing logical volume(s), using "lvextend". You can then use resize2fs or ext2online to change the sizes of the ext2/3 filesystems on the logical volume(s) you have made bigger, to make use of the extra space." HTH, James
