Re: Get rid of windowz.

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Well how do I find out whether I am using LVM or not? The lvm command
seems to work I get the lvm> prompt.

And second one: I updated my system, all the software and downloading
all the stuff took hours to me. Is there a possibility to backup the
updates and use them again if I have to reinstall the whole system?

On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 16:25 +0100, Paul Howarth 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
> >>
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> > 
> > 
> > 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.
> 
-- 
Kind regards,
Maciej
--
m.mail@xxxxx

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