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. Using partition magic to move all the partitions over may or may not work. -- ======================================================================= There is no sin but ignorance. -- Christopher Marlowe ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx