Hi
I’ve installed openSUSE 11.1 and am using it ok.
Can I now remove the Windows partition and components? If so how please?
Please open a terminal and become su and post result of
fdisk -l
Ta for quick response.
That gives
Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000699fc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1253 10056690 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 * 1253 2434 9494383+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1253 1316 514017 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1317 1969 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 1970 2434 3735081 83 Linux
Let me explain.
The red win partition is a primary
the blue is an extended partition
All the green are inside the blue partition.
Do you understand that?
If it were me and I couldn’t easily backup everything in my /home (with the plan of wiping the entire drive and starting from scratch) I would do this with the current config:
Delete swap and / and create a new swap of 1GB in the same area, then expand /home in to all the space remaining. So that will leave just two partitions inside the extended space.
And in the space made by formatting sda1: I would make a new root /
The I would re-install either 11.1 or 11.2 and keep /home (do not format).
Hi
Thanks for that. It seems to of worked for the most part. Windows is no more.
I can’t seem to enlarge /home and / appears to have 9.05GB of unused space.
fdisk -l now gives this
Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000699fc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1253 10056690 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1253 2434 9494383+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1253 1381 1028160 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1970 2434 3735081 83 Linux
Is this the sort of thing that was expected?
Look at sda5 and sda6. You have blank unused space from 1382 thru 1969 caused by a deleted logical partition. Thusly, you have about 5GB unallocated. There are many ways you may make this space useable. Just one way would be to create a logical partition for that space and mount it as storage with-in the home folders of all Linux’s. Being mounted in this manor offers the ability to share data between the Linux’s.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1253 10056690 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1253 2434 9494383+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1253 1381 1028160 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1970 2434 3735081 83 Linux
Use Parted Magic
Using Parted Magic an Introduction - openSUSE Forums
You should be able to resize sda6
Moving the 1970 to the left to the value 1382
If you can’t figure it
Take a screen shot in parted of what you see
Post it here
Hi. Quick update. I’ve not forgotten about this but not been able to do anything yet as my DVD drive has died. Hopefully once that’s sorted I’ll be back in business.
No worries Stephen, we’ll keep an eye out for you. Good luck!
Hi.
I finally got a new DVD drive. Plugged it in and it was picked up straight away - wonderful.
Ran Parted Magic and now fdisk -l gives this:
Disk /dev/sda: 20.0 GB, 20020396032 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2434 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000699fc
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1253 10056690 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1253 2434 9494383+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1253 1381 1028160 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1381 2434 8466160+ 83 Linux
It looks like it’s worked as expected. 
Many thanks
Steve
Looks good Steve. Well done;)