[ale] Reclaiming WIndows drive space

[James P. Kinney III]

Assuming the soon-to-nuked partition is /dev/hda1 just format the
partition with:

mkreiserfs /dev/hda1  (double check on any other flags you may need. I
don't use reiser so I'm a bit rusty)

Make the /data directory where you want it. Now setup a listing for
it /etc/fstab using other directories as a pattern.

On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 14:31 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> I've got a laptop with a 60GB drive divided 50/50 between SUSE 9.3 and
> WinXP.  I'd like to reclaim the the 30GB WinXP partition and use the
> 60GB drive exclusively for SUSE (making a 30GB /data partition).
> 
> What would be the easiest way to do this?  I've got Partiion Magic 7
> with which I thought I might nuke the WinXP partition.  Or is doing
> this in Linux better.  The current SUSE partitions are ReiserFS so I
> thought I'd do the same with this new partition.
> 
> I have a ton of data on the SUSE side and I could backup and do a
> complete reinstall, but this would be a last resort.
> 
> Thanks for tips.
> 
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