Uninstalling Win7
 

I have a dual boot laptop Fedora and Win7, I want to remove win7 completely, so I can use the full hard drive for linux.
How would I do this, so it boots linux only.

Thanks for any Advice

Please post the output of (as root or sudo): The answer depends on whether Fedora is using LVM.

Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes
I/O size (minimal/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3e32d19e

list of partitions
ntfs - boot (does not end on cylinder boundary)
ntfs
linux
linux swap/solaris
linux

I don't see the 'Id' column. Please post exactly the results of fdisk -l.

EDIT: Mine, for example:

Are you sure it wouldn't be better to just shrink the Win7 partition but keep it around? Just asking

I am contemplating a similar excercise. I have two possible methods in mind.

The first is to make a backup of all my data and do a fresh install using the whole disk.

The second is to back up the data on my Windows partition and reformat that as Ext3 to be mounted as a seperate data directory.

I'm sort of leaning toward the fresh install when the next full version of Mepis comes out.

I was thinking about wiping windows and formatting it too, but to ex4(fedora 13).

hdb1 will be replaced with the relevant partition
/home2 will be created in the same directory as home(so in root i think)

Would this be any good to add to my fstab?

would you be able to delete/shrink/grow the partitions with gparted live cd/usb.

It is not going to work out!

Your Windows are in primaries sda1 and sda2.

If you have a separate /home it would be sda7 (full details in /etc/fstab) which is a logical partition at the end.

You cannot mix space from a primary partition (or partitions) with a logical partition unless they are neighbouring each other in a hard disk.

It is like having a bathroom between bedroom 1 and bedroom 2. You can't combine the two together. If there is no bathroom in between you can at least knock down the wall in between to make two rooms into one.

You could remove sda1 and sda2 and shift everything upward in the hard disk so the the space is available at the bottom of the disk to be absorbed into sda7 but there is a lot of shifting work. You will also need to restore Grub once the hard disk address has been changed.

I would clone the 200Gb disk into a larger disk and use the additional space. The 2TB hard disks are now being sold at probably the same price when you bought the 200Gb!

^i would at least play around with gparted live to see if it is possible to move/copy/delete/resize partitions the way you like.

I have a Parted Magic live disk for partition editing, how would I re-install grub, not sure how to do it?

these look promising:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubunt...-wipes-it-out/
http://ilovefedora.blogspot.com/2009/05/reinstall.html

You can simply make any partition and attach it to the system as space. You don't really have to merge delete or expand partitions if you don't want to.