How do you delete a partition in Linux?

You can create and delete partitions using the fdisk command. type 'fdisk /dev/hda' as root, replacing /dev/hda with the hard drive the partition you want to delete is on. If your system uses IDE, hda is the primary master, hdb is the primary slave, hdc is the secondary master, and hdd is the secondary slave. If your system is SCSI based then use /dev/sda, etc.

So, once you have fdisk running you can press m for a list of commands. 'p' prints the partition table, 'd' deletes a partition, but be warned, there's no turning back and you'll lose all the data on you partition.

edit: when you are done making changes, pressing 'w' saves the changes and exits. If you decide not to change anything press 'q' to quit without saving.

Hope this helps

Where do I enter in the fdisk command?

Open a terminal session. Issue the command ' su - ' to change to root and use root's enviroment variables. Now run the command ' fdisk /dev/hda ' if you wish to modify the first IDE harddrive. The First USB or SATA drive will be /dev/sda.

Brian1

In a console. The window manager you are using (KDE, Gnome, xfce4, etc..) probably has one installed. Check your applications menu for a terminal or console program and run that. This will open a box which looks a bit like a MS-DOS prompt but is much more powerful.

If you aren't already the root user (type 'whoami' to find out) then type 'su'. You'll be asked to enter the root password so do so. now you can type the fdisk command.

Check out www.tldp.org. It is an excellent source of linux documentation. There is also a google linux search which is pretty useful. www.google.com/linux