[ale] Reclaiming WIndows drive space

[Geoffrey]

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.
> 
> Thanks for tips.

fdisk /dev/hda

then delete the windows partition and create a linux partition.  then 
format the partition to your preferred type.

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Until later, Geoffrey