Removing Windows

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

That's an idea :)

Maybe I'll try out Fedora on the Windows partition....I've heard good things
about the latest version.  And I distinctly remember giving you that
SGI....were you able to ever do anything with it?  I wasn't.  My UNIX
knowledge has improved significantly since then, but I still prefer Linux.

If I run a risk of corrupting my Ubuntu install, I don't think I'll mess
with that now...if I have that risk, it might just make more sense to do a
complete reinstall/re-partition when I have time.

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:49 PM, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:59, Kai Presler-Marshall
> <kaipresler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Totally am in Chappel Hill :)
> >
> > I really don't want to reinstall now, this is my main system & I
> > mostly have it set up the way I like it......and with how busy school
> > is I don'mt have time to re-set it up ATM.  So I would be best off
> > just keeping Windows or just using gparted to exand my Ubuntu to use
> > everything?
> >
> > And your name sounds familiar.....
>
> Heh... I bet, then, that you are the same kid I got the SGI O2 from a
> few years back.  You have an unusual enough name to not be forgotten
> :-)
>
> I get the not having time and all (totally get that).  Given your
> constraints, your best bet to make use of what you've got is to follow
> Ric's advice WRT to just using that Windows partition for data (you
> can re-format it and then mount it, create symlinks into /home, etc).
>
> I would not suggest removing the partition completely and resizing the
> remaining partition(s) given your constraints (time, etc).  When you
> start resizing partitions, you run the very real risk of corruption
> and loss of data.  So A: only do so after completely backing up
> everything you want to save, and B: only do so when you've got the
> time to rebuild from scratch.  The simplest, safest suggestion so far
> was what Ric Moore said.
>
> That or, my other suggestion, use the space currently occupied by
> Windows to do OTHER OS installations on and try out other Linuxes,
> BSDs, etc.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jeff
>
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