Noob Partition????

I’ve searched and I can’t really find the answer I’m looking for.
I’ve been dual booting SUSE 11.1 and Vista 64 and I’m ready to get rid of Vista, plus the vista partitions are eating up 110GB. So what would be the best way to re-partition. Here’s what I have…

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd5e46488

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1        1530    12288000   27  Unknown
/dev/sda2            1530       15967   115960832    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3           15967       21267    42572250    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4   *       21268       30401    73368855    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5           21268       21529     2104483+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6           21530       24140    20972826   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           24141       30401    50291451   83  Linux

ps I store alot of movies!!!

Thanks in advance for the help

i guess i should also add that everything I need from Vista is backed-up on DVD so I can wipe it clean…

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While I haven’t done this myself I can’t think of a reason you couldn’t
just recreate the NTFS partitions as something else entirely using fdisk
or the Yast Partitioner tool. Have a backup of your Grub settings and
possibly your MBR but otherwise I can’t think of anything else to worry
about. You could even leave those as NTFS, mount then read/write, and
then wipe out the files and still use them purely for storage.

Good luck.

jfalco wrote:
> I’ve searched and I can’t really find the answer I’m looking for.
> I’ve been dual booting SUSE 11.1 and Vista 64 and I’m ready to get rid
> of Vista, plus the vista partitions are eating up 110GB. So what would
> be the best way to re-partition. Here’s what I have…
>
> Code:
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> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xd5e46488
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/sda1 1 1530 12288000 27 Unknown
> /dev/sda2 1530 15967 115960832 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda3 15967 21267 42572250 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda4 * 21268 30401 73368855 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
> /dev/sda5 21268 21529 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6 21530 24140 20972826 83 Linux
> /dev/sda7 24141 30401 50291451 83 Linux
> --------------------
>
>
>
> ps I store alot of movies!!!
>
> Thanks in advance for the help
>
>
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