colvirk
December 9th, 2009, 04:02 AM
Hello all.
I have been researching some online to try and remove my windows xp partition from my computer. My ultimate goal would be to remove the NTFS partition and expand my Ubuntu partition to take up all of the hard drive (along with a swap partition). I ran the command I saw in a similar post (sudo fdisk -lu) and here's the output:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 159410159 79705048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 220842720 234435599 6796440 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 159412995 220829489 30708247+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 159413058 163413179 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 163413243 220829489 28708123+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 is a recovery partition I would like to keep to easily convert back to winxp if I need to. I installed Ubuntu 1) to try it out and 2)to backup some important files. These files are now on the Ubuntu partition which is why I am trying to go this method instead of removing the entire partition and starting over.
I am not a very experienced linux user and need some hand holding here if someone has the time. Thanks all in advance!
I have been researching some online to try and remove my windows xp partition from my computer. My ultimate goal would be to remove the NTFS partition and expand my Ubuntu partition to take up all of the hard drive (along with a swap partition). I ran the command I saw in a similar post (sudo fdisk -lu) and here's the output:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders, total 234441648 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x95aa95aa
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 159410159 79705048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 220842720 234435599 6796440 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 159412995 220829489 30708247+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 159413058 163413179 2000061 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 163413243 220829489 28708123+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 is a recovery partition I would like to keep to easily convert back to winxp if I need to. I installed Ubuntu 1) to try it out and 2)to backup some important files. These files are now on the Ubuntu partition which is why I am trying to go this method instead of removing the entire partition and starting over.
I am not a very experienced linux user and need some hand holding here if someone has the time. Thanks all in advance!