Hello

I'm running on dual boot, redhat and windows, and I want to remove my windows xp completely and incorporate the freespace to linux. But after checking fdisk -l and less /etc/fstab, it gives the following:

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30020272128 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3649 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2362 18972733+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2363 3585 9823747+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 3586 3649 514080 82 Linux swap

and,

LABEL=LINUX / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Isn't the "LABEL=LINUX" part should be /dev/hda2? Also the less lilo.conf.anaconda gives:

prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=LINUX"

other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=DOS

and the root should be /dev/hda2 as well? Can anyone tell me how to change them back to /dev/hda2, the normal state?

Thank you very much

Nothing is wrong. Partitions can be labled and referenced as such in fstab. See manpages for tune2fs for details. Since you are writing lilo to the MBR it is referenced as /dev/hda so again all is well.

If you want to resize hda2 you will need to use parted http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html.

You will need to boot from the install CD and select rescue mode. You will need to unmount the root filesystems which would be at /mnt/sysimage. Be sure to backup any important data. Other options would be to change the partition ID to linux, format copy data to use as either your /home or /var as an example.