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climatewarrior
October 20th, 2007, 01:38 AM
What about a program that automatically erases your windows partiton and expands your Ubuntu partition to take over the space that Windows left. This would be good for people that tried Ubuntu and didint think would make the complete switch but later want to make it.
thelocust
October 20th, 2007, 06:35 AM
You can't expand partitions unless you used LVM. But you could reformat your windows partition and make it into something usefull.
Zdravko
October 20th, 2007, 01:21 PM
There might be important data on Win partition. backup first must be done!
Next.Step
October 20th, 2007, 05:14 PM
I dont think it would be stable enough.
We're talkung about NTFS here!
DizzyTech
October 20th, 2007, 05:34 PM
I've expanded a partition before without LVM. However, a feature like this would require a really long move partition process and then expanding.
thelocust
October 20th, 2007, 09:03 PM
You can't expand partitions unless you used LVM.

My bad just found out that GParted 0.3.3 can do this. Though I havn't tried it out for my self yet.
catfacts
October 21st, 2007, 12:46 AM
Probably a better idea would just be for it to swallow up the win partition and incorporate the files into your home dir. Minus WINDOWS and Program Files of course!
FredB
October 21st, 2007, 01:13 AM
The worst idea I've ever think about. You have to let the user the FREEDOM of having a Windows in its computer too.

Just my 0.02 € of course !
Zdravko
October 21st, 2007, 03:24 AM
Yes, give the user the ability to choose!
23meg
October 21st, 2007, 03:33 AM
A classic example of "freedom" and "choice" being put forward as invalid arguments for or against something.

Would the user not have the "freedom" to not "choose" the option?
Zdravko
October 21st, 2007, 03:35 AM
23meg (http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=11472), I would always love to choose from different things. Thus, the initial idea is not that good.
23meg
October 21st, 2007, 03:46 AM
I think you need to read the original post again.
Lozz
October 21st, 2007, 09:54 AM
If there was a menu choice to make a complete switch I think I might use it. A better idea though might be to have an "expand you ubuntu partition" option. So that you could either expand into free space or overwrite windows when you ran out of space on the ubuntu partition.