I'm running FC3 on my laptop in a dual boot. The only thing I've booted
to windows for was to get on a wireless network since I haven't been
able to get my dwl650 or the internal wireless card working. So I'm
considering getting rid of my windows partitions. Below is my partition
table.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 2627 21101346 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2 2628 3902 10241437+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda3 3903 3915 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/hda4 3916 9729 46700955 5 Extended /dev/hda5 3916 9729 46700923+ 8e Linux LVM
-What's the best way to remove these two NTFS partitions?
-Can I remove them and use qtparted to move and resize my linux
partitions? Move Linux and Extended to the beginning of the drives and
expand Linux LVM over the rest of it.
-Or should I just plan on reinstalling?
You are using LVM; there is no need to do anything drastic.
Change the partition types of hda1 and hda2 to "Linux LVM". Don't delete or merge the partitions together, or you will need to alter your grub.conf file to change partition numbers (not a big job, admittedly).
Then do: # pvcreate /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2
You will now be able to use "vgextend" to add /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2 to your existing logical volume (VolGroup00 by default):
# vgextend VolGroup00 /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2
"vgdisplay" should then show that you have additional 30G 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.
Paul.
