Re: Q: about reformat disk where Linux and Window coexist

[Dabin Wang <dabwang rogers com>]

All fdisk infor from DOS are those that were sent before. Partition Magic has more infor. After I reinstalled Linux, it looks like the following:

local Disk (C:)    FAT32    6722     6644    78  Active   Primary
/boot(*.)            Linux Ext2 23    3    20    None   Primary
(*.)                     Extended   2980   2980   none   Primary
/(*.)                     Linux Ext2   2910   757   2152   None Logical
SWAPSPACE   Linux Swap 70    0.0    70    None    Logical


Dave


Bob McClure Jr wrote:

On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 01:34:24AM -0400, Dabin Wang wrote:
  

Messages are in the following:
1. Display partition Information:
1   A    PRI DOS   6722   FAT32   69%
2           NON-DOS    24                %
3            EXT DOS   3000            31%

2. When I delete Extended DOS Partition:

Message: delete logical DOS drive in Extended DOS Partition

3. So I have delete logical drive first, but I got the message: no 
logical drives defined


How to do that?

Dave
    

I think we're still missing some information.  If part 3 is an
extended partition, then to be useful it must contain some logical
partitions, and they should be listed in the same display.

As another poster suggested, use the Linux fdisk by booting to rescue
mode from your Linux install disk 1 (enter "linux rescue" at the boot
prompt, and since you are presumably going to be deleting the Linux
partition(s), tell it not to mount your existing Linux installation.

Cheers,