How do I remove the Ubuntu recovery partition in Dell 1420N from within Ubuntu?

[bcasanov]

Hi,

I would like to remove the Feisty recovery partition that came with my Dell 1420N originally. I would like to do that within Nautilus, if at all possible. Is there a way to do it?

[ibutho]

You could probably do this using partitioning tools such as gparted (should be listed somewere in the system menu).

[bcasanov]

How is the partition identified in gparted?

[ibutho]

How is the partition identified in gparted?

I don't own a dell laptop so can't be specific. On my maxdata laptop, its an NTFS partition.

[bcasanov]

Hi, here I have attached a screenshot of what appears on gparted, so that could maybe help.

[ibutho]

It seems like on your system, the rescue partitions are FAT (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2). I am not sure whether its normal for DELL to use two partitions for the rescue files.

[bcasanov]

Do you think the partition with the larger space is the recovery partition?

[neptho]

Leave the FAT16 partition alone; that's the diagnostic partition. You may safely remove /dev/sda2 if you choose.

[bcasanov]

Thank you! I think I'll go ahead and delete the /dev/sd2 partition, which might just be the recovery partition.

[bcasanov]

Okay, I deleted the partition. This screenshot is the result of what shows up in Gparted. I would like to merge this unused space back into my main / partition. How do I do that?