Removing / formating existing partitions
I have two operating systems on my computer... WinXP and SUSE 8.0 pro. On HDD I have 2 NTFS partitions that I's like to get rid of. One contains the WinXP and other has random files that are not important, so practiclally formatting that won't be any lost. Q1: How do I get rid of WinXP partition, so that I am still capable of booting to suse with Lilo. Q2; How do I format NTFS partitions. Thanks. P. S.
At 13/09/2002 11:09, Petri Somerkari wrote:
I have two operating systems on my computer... WinXP and SUSE 8.0 pro. On HDD I have 2 NTFS partitions that I's like to get rid of. One contains the WinXP and other has random files that are not important, so practiclally formatting that won't be any lost.
Q1: How do I get rid of WinXP partition, so that I am still capable of booting to suse with Lilo.
Assuming you want to be Windows-free (and hell, who doesn't ??), the easiest way would be to boot into non-GUI mode and run fdisk on that drive, CAREFULLY deleting the relevant partitions.... Do a "mount" first and take note of what's mounted and do *not* delete these !!
Q2; How do I format NTFS partitions.
You don't... Once you've nuked the partitions, you use fdisk to create Linux (type 83) partitions to your liking... Then use mkext2 to generate the filesystem on them.... Modift fstab to mount them as appropriate. Jon
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:09:03AM +0300, pete@replicadesigns.net wrote:
I have two operating systems on my computer... WinXP and SUSE 8.0 pro. On HDD I have 2 NTFS partitions that I's like to get rid of. One contains the WinXP and other has random files that are not important, so practiclally formatting that won't be any lost.
Q1: How do I get rid of WinXP partition, so that I am still capable of booting to suse with Lilo.
Use fdisk (or cfdisk for a nicer interface) to delete the partition. Assuming you have put LILO in the boot sector, deleting the partition should have no effect on your ability to boot Linux. If you wish, you can modify your LILO setup to remove the WinXP boot option. You can do this through YaST2, or by editing /etc/lilo.conf and re-running lilo.
Q2; How do I format NTFS partitions.
Assuming you want to format them to Linux... Delete the partitions with fdisk, and create new partitions in their place, with the 'Linux Native' type. Format with mke2fs, or whatever FS takes your fancy. Alternatively, I think that YaST2 has an interface to do all this. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
Use fdisk (or cfdisk for a nicer interface) to delete the partition. Assuming you have put LILO in the boot sector, deleting the partition should have no effect on your ability to boot Linux.
LILO is in boot sector, and NTFS is on first partition, since the machine first had WinXP and SUSE is added to it later... Does this affect ? Pete
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 11:59:14AM +0300, pete@replicadesigns.net wrote:
LILO is in boot sector, and NTFS is on first partition, since the machine first had WinXP and SUSE is added to it later... Does this affect ?
No. -- David Smith Work Email: Dave.Smith@st.com STMicroelectronics Home Email: David.Smith@ds-electronics.co.uk Bristol, England GPG Key: 0xF13192F2
Has anybody tried the nice Yast2 partitioner? It should work nicely if all he wants to do is killing those windows partition and create a new Linux partition, and it adds the new one to fstab properly. Praise
The easiest thing to do for the unused NTFS partition is to simply go into
the YasT2 partitioner change the type to Linux native using the edit
function, optionally set up a mount point, click on format.
Since this is an existing partition, it should not change the partition
numbering.
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Jerry Feldman
Petri Somerkari
I have two operating systems on my computer... WinXP and SUSE 8.0 pro. On HDD I have 2 NTFS partitions that I's like to get rid of.
It can be done with the YaST2 module called Partitioner too. -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
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