Get rid of windowz.

[Gustavo Seabra]

On 5/11/05, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> 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 at vp.pl
> >>
> >>#########################################
> >># WARNING: New to Linux since May 2005! #
> >>#########################################
> >
> >
> > 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.

Why reinstall? Isn't it just like getting a new HD? I believe all he'd
need to do is to reformat the partition with ext3 (qtparted maybe?)
and then assign some label to it... But my knowledge on this is
limited, I admit.

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