I've got a laptop with a 60GB drive divided 50/50 between SUSE 9.3 and WinXP. I'd like to reclaim the the 30GB WinXP partition and use the 60GB drive exclusively for SUSE (making a 30GB /data partition). What would be the easiest way to do this? I've got Partiion Magic 7 with which I thought I might nuke the WinXP partition. Or is doing this in Linux better. The current SUSE partitions are ReiserFS so I thought I'd do the same with this new partition. I have a ton of data on the SUSE side and I could backup and do a complete reinstall, but this would be a last resort. Thanks for tips. -- Cheers, Trey ---- The right to revolt has sources deep in our history. -- Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas Linux salamander 2.6.11.4-21.7-default i686 GNU/Linux 2:53pm up 5 days 5:43, 3 users, load average: 1.40, 0.66, 0.36
Trey Sizemore wrote:
I've got a laptop with a 60GB drive divided 50/50 between SUSE 9.3 and WinXP. I'd like to reclaim the the 30GB WinXP partition and use the 60GB drive exclusively for SUSE (making a 30GB /data partition).
What would be the easiest way to do this? I've got Partiion Magic 7 with which I thought I might nuke the WinXP partition. Or is doing this in Linux better. The current SUSE partitions are ReiserFS so I thought I'd do the same with this new partition.
I have a ton of data on the SUSE side and I could backup and do a complete reinstall, but this would be a last resort.
If you're planning on leaving the partition the same size, there's no need for Partition Magic or similar. Just reformat the partition and mount it.
Hey, Try this out: IF there is anything you want to save on the Windows partition, do so first. After that, type mount If you see the Windows partition mounted, as others have said, umount it. after that, type this: cfdisk You'll see a screen showing all the partitions on your box, and then you can delete the Windows partition, make a new one for Linux, and it's fairly simple to use and much easier than the others. If you don't want to do it from a command prompt, open YAST2 and use the partition editor there to delete it. This should work fine.
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