Roby wrote:

> stevewy@hotmail.com wrote:
>
>>My choice would be to use cfdisk to first delete hda2 and
>> above, then create a new hda2 using all of the available
>> space.
>>
>> I have looked at /etc/fstab as you suggested, and my current working
>> Ubuntu does not need any of the hda partitions, as it is installed
>> entirely on hdb. For the avoidance of doubt here, can you give me the
>> command line I will need for cfdisk (I am assuming here that this is a
>> shell command) to erase the unwanted partitions on hda, leaving me
>> with my existing 39Gb Windows partition and one 39Gb FAT32 partition I
>> can use for my Ubuntu programs? I have looked at the man page for
>> cfdisk and it is a bit puzzling...
>>
>> Steve
>
> cfdisk is curses-based ... a poor-man's gui. Run it as root and
> point it at your main drive (be sure none of hda is mounted):
>
> $ sudo cfdisk /dev/hda
>
> (It will look sorta like this
>
> cfdisk 2.12r
>
> Disk Drive: /dev/hda
> Size: 80060424192 bytes, 80.0 GB
> Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9733
>
> Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> hda1 Boot Primary NTFS 35370
> hda2 Primary NTFS 20020
> hda3 Primary ext3 16360
> hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 745.17
>
> [Bootable] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [Maximize] [ Print ] [ Quit ]
> [ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]
>
> Toggle bootable flag of the current partition
>
> Navigation: up/down arrows move partition selection, left/right
> arrows move operation selection.
>
> Highlight hda5, select Delete. Repeat for hda3, then hda2.
> Now select the free space and create a new primary partition
> starting at the beginning of the free space and occupying all
> of the space. Menus will guide you. Then set the type to
> 83 for linux. Finally (and most important), look at the new
> arrangement...last chance!! Now select Write and cfdisk will
> revise the partition table to your specifications. Then choose
> Quit. You do have that backup, yes?
>
> cfdisk has changed the partition table (only). You must format
> the newly assigned space. First reboot. It's not really needed
> in this particular case, but good practice after any partition
> table change.
>
> Format the fs of your choice; e.g., sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda2
> Revise /etc/fstab to tell Ubuntu what you did.
>
> Roby

Small correction: I misunderstood the final format of the new hda2.
Choose the type number for fat32, and mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda2.