uninstall a dual boot xp and keep suse?
 

Hello, I am looking for a way to remove xp from my box and keeping suse to save some space.

I have a 11 gig partition for xp and it's in the windows folder in the root directory. I googled for a solution but it is pretty much for getting rid of linux and keeping xp.

Is there a way to remove xp and keeping suse and add the 11 gig extra space to my home dir and also remove the xp menu from the MBR?

Thanks,

-bhert

of course, with suse you can use YASt to partition the windowsXP/ntfs partition to ext3 give it a mount point like /home2 , then
sudo mkdir /home2/username
and later create a symlink
sudo ln -s /home2/username /home/username/exXP

i dont know whether it will be necessary then to remove the boot entry for probably it will be done automatically by suse but if not take YAST->boot configuration (or similar) to edit the boot options...

If I remember, you can do everything through YaST. This way everything, mount points and partitions will be "warned" or "chose of options" the GUI way.

I have lost some my important data while installing fedora 8. Now how can I get these data back? Any solution is there..........

sksingha83,

you need to post your questions on a new thread instead of putting them in the middle of someone else. This helps the members to be able to find your problem so they can help.

After you install a new OS like fedora, you cannot recover information from partitions you already installed. Noticed that I used the word partition, not drive. If you installed so that your partitions automatically spanned the entire drive, your old information is gone, but if you installed by splitting your drive into multiple partitions, then you can recover your information from other drives. Just mount them and grab your data.

- Jim

thanks j-ray, it worked fine. I am using the new /home2 for all the videos I have. I changed the uid and guid of /home2 so it will be like the /home I have.

Larry Webb, I noticed the warnings about making sure I know what I am doing with partitioning. It would make people think twice if they are doing the right thing or not and mess up the system.

Thanks again:)

UPDATE: I had to configure the boot options. I could have modified the /boot/grub/menu.1st but I used YAST instead cause I don't know if the system will update it if i did it manually.

-bhert