how to remove extended windows partition using cfdisk?
I had a primary and extended windows partition. cfdisk shows the primary windows partition but not the extended partition (the extended partition shows up during the partition check at bootup time, but not when checked using cfdisk). Is there any way to remove both the primary and extended partitions (I can remove the primary windows partition, but the extended partition does not seem to want to go away).
Any suggestions to do this would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Maidros |
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fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 4864 cylinders Units = cylinders 0f 16065 * 512 bytes Device Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1582 2797 9767520 83 Linux /dev/hda2 1 365 2931831 5 Extended /dev/hda3 366 1581 9767520 83 Linux /dev/hda4 2798 4863 16595145 c Win95 FAT32 /dev/hda5 1 365 2931799 82 Linux swap |
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When partitioning you can have 4 primary or 3 primary and 1 extended (which can contain many logical drives) partitions on a hard drive the last of these (3 +1) is what you will end up with if you convert the /dev/hda4 windows to a linux which still will be a /dev/hda4 partition when everything is done. BTW the formatting showed up perfectly when I quoted for this post go figure eh. Edit: Note you will still have to format the new linux /dev/hda4 with the file system you want before you will be able to make use of it. |
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