Hey guys, I want to install Ubuntu alongside my Windows 7 OS.
I have the following configuration:
sda1 1 GB maybe fat32 (windows recovery partition)
sda2 40 GB ntfs(windows drive c) with boot flag
sda3 around 100GB ntfs(storage partition)
sda4 extended partition:sda5 10 GB ext4 partition
sda6 1 GB linux swap
I want to make this changes:
sda2 30 GB resize(decrease size with 10 GB)
sda3 around 100GB(move and maybe decrease size with 4-5 GB)
I have an Acer Aspire One from the AO725 series, with a 320gb hard drive, preinstalled with Windows 7 home Premium.
Here's the story:
I have (hopefully it's not 'had') old Fedora 14 and Windows XP on my hdd (it's only one hdd! 500GB).
The hdd was split roughly like this:
sda1
200GB for Windows (NTFS),
Extended partition sda2
50GB for Archive(NTFS) can't remember sda number - read the story to understand
250GB I used for Fedora 14 which is my main OS I use.
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.
So my computer has the following partitions:
/dev/sda -- (I know this isn't a real partition, but more so the boot loader)
/dev/sda1 -- (Windows 7 Boot Loader)
/dev/sda3 -- (Windows 7)
/dev/sda4 -- (Data partition, NTFS)
that means i have
/dev/sda2 as free space.
I do not want to change the MBR of the computer. I would like /dev/sda2 to contain GRUB AND Ubuntu.
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
You will want type 0x83. It is the partition type for ext2, ext3 and ext4. Extended is used as a "wrapper" to allow more than four primary partitions. You can put several non-primary partitions in an extended partition.Here is my partition scheme:Disk identifier: 0x87b33479
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048
How can I create another partition (to e.g. parallel install a different ubuntu version) with this current partitioning table?
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