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).
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.
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
