[Leaplist] Recombining a divided and Formatting a hard disk

[Chris]

It's hardly worth validating Phil, he won't lead you off track, but
for what it's worth, I did exactly this just a few weeks ago. I used
the GPartEd livecd, and it worked just as Phil described. I had some
incorrect notion stuck in my head that deleting the first partition
was a bad thing, but in this case, I had a full backup, and nothing
to lose but time, so I tried it, and it was much faster and easier than
restoring a USB drive backup and re-installing.

In my case, I was dealing with only primary partitions - I don't know
what happens if your ext2/3 partitions are logical partitions inside an
extended partition. Perhaps you first have to expand the extended
partition, then expand the ext2/3 logical partition(s) inside of it.

Cheers, Chris


Ram K. Singh wrote:

> Thank you Phil..:)
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Phil Barnett <philb at philb.us>
> To: leaplist at leap-cf.org
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 5:06:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leaplist] Recombining a divided and Formatting a hard disk
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> On Saturday 20 September 2008 01:41:30 pm Ram K. Singh wrote:
> > One of my Notebook I had divided into NTFS and Ext 3. Now I want to
> > recombime them in one Ext 3. I have GPARTED but can't figure out how to
> > achieve the objective. Any help would be highly appreciated.
>
> I've never done specifically that, but the general process is:
>
> 1. Get all the data that you want from the NTFS partition
>
> 2. Remove the NTFS partition with GPARTED.
>
> 3. Expand the EXT3 partition with GPARTED.
>
> I would suggest if you have another drive that the less risky way to 
> do this
> would be to partition the new drive the way you want it and use one of 
> many
> methods to migrate the data you want to a new drive. When it looks 
> like you
> want it to look, format the old drive.
>
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