On Jul 2, 9:16 am, Roby <r...@no-address.net> wrote:
> Roby wrote:
> > stev...@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.

Following the above discussion, I didnt see where the Windows OS is
on NTFS
or on VFAT. Big distinction. If you have the OS disk, you could
reformat the partition as VFAT which will allow you to use, write,
edit, files across OSs.
Otherwise you can Samba. If this is not a problem, well have a nice
day.

Zeno