I am now using OpenSuse 10.2. I have Fedora 6 lying in the other partition. I want to remove the Fedora partition and add up the space in OpenSuse. Can I do that through the partition tool in YAST?

Fedora is in /dev/hda6 and it's swap is in /dev/hda5

Kindly suggest.

arindom, we can't tell you how to do that because we don't know where OpenSuse is installed. What is the relation in partitions: OpenSuse,Fedora,swap or Fedora,swap,Opensuse?

We need to know where all three partitions are located.

It may be an easy task using cfdisk or Yast partitioning tool. It may be an impossible task.

But, we can't tell you anything until we know where all three are located.

Yes, depending on the partitioning scheme you should be able to merge the partitions, however, you will need to do it with the filesystem unmounted ie. from a live cd. Don't forget to back things up first.
Cheers,
Stan.

I should have given that details earlier. As I am still learing how to use linux, so may be that is the reason I have missed the details.

Here is my fstab details :

/dev/hda3 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda4 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap
/dev/hda6 /mnt/Fedora ext3 defaults 0 0

I have OpenSuse and Fedora in my system. I want to remove Fedora and relocate the space to OpenSuse.

I hope this will be helpful if you need further details please advise me the steps. Thanks for your help.

No prob. I dont think you can merge them, hda3 will be a primary partition while hda6 will be logical. To get rid of the logical partition you will need to delete the /home partition which I'm guessing you dont want to do. However, you could re-format the swap on hda5 as ext3 and merge all 3 logical partitions (hda4, 5 and 6) as /home on hda4 which would probably be the best thing to do as the os doest really need much space.
Cheers,
Stan

Thanks Stan for your suggestions. I will try that and report. Hopefully I can do what you have suggested.

Hope it works out OK for you, don't forget the backup just in case.
I would recommend booting with an ubuntu CD and using gparted to merge them, it gives good clear messages and is straitforward to use.
You may need to run "sudo swapoff /dev/hda5" before merging as most live distro's mount any swap they find at boot.
Good luck with it,
Stan.

/dev/hda4 will (likely) not be a logical.
Let's see the output from "/sbin/fdisk -l" (lower cas eell).
Trying to merge partitions is not usually a simple process - LVM excepted.

Here's another suggestion - merely delete the unused partitions, and use the space for particular mount points you know are going to grow and cause problems. Say /media/music or /media/movies, or /usr. Whatever.
Clean and simple, and doesn't put your current system at risk.

My mistake, hda4 should be primary with 5 and 6 being logical on 2. Merging 2 and 4 will probably not be possible. You would need to:
remove 2 and everything on it,
create a new swap partition at the start of 2
mount the new swap
unmount the old swap at 3 and delete it,
format the free space as ext3,
merge the new hda3 with with hda4.
Not so easy and quite a lot of risk, freeing up the space and using it for storage would be the better option.
Cheers,
Stan

Well, I did tried to re-format /hda5 as /ext3 but system reminded me that it is mounted and YAST can unmount and format. When I chose yes, system again reminded me saying I may loose data. So I backed of .

Regarding the output : /sbin/fdisk -l

This is the output:
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 62 497983+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda2 4867 9733 39094177+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 * 63 1989 15478627+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1990 4866 23109502+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda5 4867 5259 3156741 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6 5260 9733 35937373+ 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
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It seems that this is risky business to do in that case I have to consider using the space for storage as suggested by Stan and Syg00.

Thanks everyone for helping me.