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Old 17-Mar-2008, 15:39
ZenoGia
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Ok I have decided to go all the way with openSuSE and would like to know if there is a proper way to dispose of the dual boot winblows Os on my PC? My reason for doing this is because my HDD isn't really big, its little, lol and winblows is taking up a large chunk. I haven't used that Os in over 2 weeks now ever since I got sound and network card working thanks to oldcpu.

Thanx in advance,

Z
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Old 17-Mar-2008, 16:06
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One simple way is to:

1st remove the MS-Windows boot from your grub boot menu.

Then 2nd, create a mount point (directory) with appropriate permissions under /home/your-user-name/data
(ie call it directory 'data' under your main user home - assuming you have only one user who needs to access the extra/new space).

Then 3rd, reformat the MS-Windows file format to a Linux ext3 format (which wipes everything on that partition).

And then 4th edit your /etc/fstab file to mount the new ext3 partition under /home/your-user-name/data.

And then 5th, reboot.
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Old 18-Mar-2008, 13:58
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See, that's what I'm talking about, you guys are awesome!

Thanx again,

Z


(+.[__]-:-) I have linux on this device too and it rocks! It plays every game console ever made from atari to Dreamcast except xbox and ps3
 

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