On 5/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > James Pifer wrote: > > 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! > > Unfortunately he doesn't appear to be using LVM, so he'll only be able > to convert the Windows partition into a Linux partition and mount it > somewhere (e.g. /mnt/data) to have that space available. > > A better option might be to reinstall; depends how much in the way of > settings there are that would need migrating. > > Paul. Why reinstall? Isn't it just like getting a new HD? I believe all he'd need to do is to reformat the partition with ext3 (qtparted maybe?) and then assign some label to it... But my knowledge on this is limited, I admit. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University Registered Linux user number 381680 Say NO! to software patents: http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If at first you don't succeed... ...skydiving is not for you.
