Re: Need to clean up the hard disk

[Albert DE WINT <adwint pandora be>]

Op zo 01-06-2003, om 22:01 schreef Mark Knecht:
> Albert,
>    There's something to be said for simplicity, 
> eh?! ;-)
> 
> fdisk /dev/hda
> 
> Then use the 'd' command to delete a partition. You would delete 5, 6 &
> 7 first, and after that, you should be able to delete the extended
> partition that seems to have caused the problems.
> 
> At the end of that process I beleive you will need to use the 'w'
> command to write the changes to disk.
> 
> It would be VERY smart to do a little bit of web browsing to find some
> instructions on doing this. We all add partitions more than we delete
> them. Good to read before you create a problem.

Good idea, I am not in a hurry.  I have these giant RED HAT manuals
printed out on paper.  Browsing those is a full work-out :-)

Besides, I know where to find the HOWTO's. Someday I'll be newbie +1.5.

Have a nice day, here it's 22:15.  I think I'll call it a day.

Bye now

> 
>    I think you should continue to have a swap partition though, and
> you're set up to use hda4 right now. Delete the hda7 partition, and
> delete the hda7 swap line in your fstab.
> 
>    Sorry we weren't able to get your data back. Too bad we did all that
> work, but I think it was good learning along the way.
> 
> Cheers,
> Mark
> 
> On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 12:05, Albert DE WINT wrote:
> > Hi Mark and Otto,
> > 
> > First I'd like to thank both of you for the outstanding assistance on my
> > "partition" experience!  It was an interesting exercice.
> > 
> > Now that lost I Mandrake, I don't feel like installing it again.
> > Let it be... (John Lennon)
> > 
> > I had a hard time, reinstalling WinXP for my kids, today.
> > I still have to take care about a new MBR to make RH9 boot.
> > (I now use a floppy to boot.)
> > 
> > I noticed WinXP 'rearranged' the partition table.
> > So, HD9 fails to install the swap partition hda4 while booting. 
> > 
> > [root dimension etc]# cat fstab
> > LABEL=/        /              ext3    defaults        1 1
> > LABEL=/boot    /boot          ext3    defaults        1 2
> > none           /dev/pts       devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> > none           /proc          proc    defaults        0 0
> > none           /dev/shm       tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda4      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/hda7      swap           swap    defaults        0 0
> > /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom     udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/cdrom1    /mnt/cdrom1    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > /dev/fd0       /mnt/floppy    auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> > [root dimension etc]#
> > 
> > I suppose I can do without swap. 'top' says I don't use it.
> > Besides, I have plenty of DRAM (512MB).
> > 
> > But I would like to 'clean up' that messy disk. Can this be done using
> > some REDHAT tools? PartitionMagic has made me think twice before jumping
> > into another adventure. I'd rather not use it again.
> > 
> > Albert
> 
> 
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