Get rid of windowz.

[Paul Howarth]

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 at vp.pl
>>
>>#########################################
>># WARNING: New to Linux since May 2005! #
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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.