On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 09:47 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > On Sat, 2006-09-02 at 12:44 +0530, yogesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > >> /dev/hda2 7.7G 5.0G 2.4G 68% / > >> /dev/hda5 15G 331M 14G 3% /backup > >> /dev/hda1 388M 13M 355M 4% /boot > >> /dev/hda6 14G 11G 2.3G 83% /data > >> none 121M 0 121M 0% /dev/shm > >> > >> > >> hi to all > >> i have a partation type as discueed above > >> i want to delete/remove > >> > >> /dev/hda5 15G 331M 14G 3% /backup > >> this partation and want to install windows 2000 on that partation > >> so can u give me help how can i remove the partation so it wiill not effct > >> the linux and it run as it is > >> > >> > >> > >> tahnks > >> > > Why do you neeed to remove it. You could just not mount in Linux and > > just let the Windows 2000 reformat it. > > > > THe real problem is that it is not the first partition on the disk. > > Windows likes to be in the first partition on the disk. > > Windows doesn't care about being the first partition (witness all those > diagnostic and recovery partitions that ship with machines these days). Let me alter that. In most cases it must be the first bootable partition, as it is in your machine. I have actually had systems where it was not the first boiotablke partition and on those Windows sometimes decindes that the whole disk is a Windows disk and distroys the Linux. Linux can certainly be booted from an extended partition. > > Windows does need to boot from a primary partition, not a logical > partition in the extended partition. (AFAIK, Linux does also.) My > dual-boot machines have partitions > > /dev/hda1 Diagnostics > /dev/hda2 Windows C: > /dev/hda3 Linux /boot (I put GRUB here and make it bootable). > /dev/hda4 Extended > /dev/hda5, etc. Other Windows and linux filesystems. > > /etc/fstab isn't all that helpful, except to show that the partition you > want isn't critical. What we really need to see in order to help you is > the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda. > > > > > Using partition magic to move all the partitions over may or may not > > work. > > -- > Matthew Saltzman > > Clemson University Math Sciences > mjs AT clemson DOT edu > http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs > -- ======================================================================= Nemo me impune lacessit. [No one provokes me with impunity] -- Motto of the Crown of Scotland ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
