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Manually deleting my ubuntu partition

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http://unix.stackexchange.com – Can anyone tell me how to delete ubuntu from a linux / windows dual boot system without harming windows? I ran the sudo fdisk /dev/sda command in a linux terminal and got the following output: /dev/sda1 - system /dev/sda2 - Compaq diagnostics /dev/sda3 - HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda5 - W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda6 - Linux /dev/sda7 - Linux swap / solaris From my online searches, I know how to delete any of these partitions but what I don't know is if I should delete any of the other non-linux labeled partitions to complete the process. (HowTos)

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Submitted by Danial on 06/02/2012 – Made popular on 06/02/2012

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So my system is set up like this:

/dev/sda1/ Windows XP Partition /dev/sda2/ FAT32 Compaq Recovery Partition /dev/sda3/ Container for Logical Partitions sda5 and sda6 /dev/sda4/ (can't find this one in Disk Utility) /dev/sda5/ Linux file system running Lubuntu 12.04 /dev/sda6/ Linux swap space

Is there a way to just delete sda5 and sda6, boot with a Ubuntu 12.04 USB key and do a completely clean

I want to know is there any possible (and simple) way to delete my Windows partitions and extend my Ubuntu partitions.

I have 1 HDD 700 GB:

sda1 primary 100MB NTFS (Windows boot partition) sda2 primary 100GB NTFS (Windows 7 OS) sda3 primary 500GB NTFS (Windows data files) sda4 extended partition 98GB: sda6 ext4 94GB (Ubuntu 12.04) sda5 swap 4GB

My actual boot partition is sda1

I want do dele

Reset partitions numbers 24 weeks 4 days ago

I just decided to delete my Windows partition and only use Linux.

My old partition table was:

sda1: W7 boot partition sda2: W7 partition sda3: Linux sda4: start of logic partitions sda5: swap.

I deleted sda1 and sda2, and then expanded sda3.

I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7 on my computer. I would create a new logical partition, and when I run sudo fdisk -l I get:

Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 206848 1518526463 759159808 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3 1910609

How do you do friends?

I had Ubuntu 12.04 and everthing was working well, but recently I decided to change my partition tables. Now I have windows 8, Ubuntu 12.04.1 and Backtrack5 R3 on my laptop. my partitions are:

/dev/sda1 * 2048 58597375 29297664 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2 58601472 976773119 459085824 5 Extended /dev/sda5 58605120 797020159 36920

This is not strictly a Linux question, although I am interested in any Linux cautions as to what to avoid that could impact my Linux on the computer in question.

stuck on stage2 after install 3 years 19 weeks ago

hi, i'm new to linux, i installed fedora 12 first. These are my partitions

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 192 1536000 27 Unknown Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2 192 23689 188743680 7 HPFS/NTFS

I've been running Windows 7 and FC16 for over a year without a problem.

sda1 is a corporate image that helps reinstall Windows sda2 is Windows 7 C drive sda3 is Windows 7 D drive sda5 is FC16 sda6 is Swap sda7 is an NTFS filesystem

My C drive under Windows 7 filled up and there wasn't enough extraneous stuff I could delete any more, so I was faced with re-partitioning the drive.

I run this script https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MigrateWubi

and reveiced a message : migration completed successfully.

Then i restarted computer and choose ubuntu from 2 lines

Windows Ubuntu

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