OpenSuSe 10.0 and WinXP - old Linux skeleton

Norman Graham · #1 November 4th, 2007, 10:38 PM

Dear Penguin Heads

I used to have SuSe 9.1 and WinXP. I got very fed up with SuSe 9.1 as I could never get anything to work as advertised. Anyway, I downloaded and installed Open SuSe 10.0. Unfortunately - probably my fault - the partition with the old SuSe version was left on the hard drive. The old partition is listed in GRUB (/dev/hda4) and I could boot it if I wanted to. In SuSe 10.0, the old SuSe partition is listed in the file explorer as /data1. I didn't give it that name.

I'd like to get rid of the old partition completely and free up the disk space. For one thing I'd like to increase the size of my XP partition (I have Acronis Partition Manager on XP and can do this easily from there). For another thing, I may need to increase my SuSe 10 partition one of these days.

How can I get rid of dev/hda4 correctly? After deleting it, the partition and its data should be genuinely gone; the disk space should be freely available for whatever I want to do with it; and GRUB should no longer list it.

I hereby swear that I have already Googled and searched this forum. If I missed the answer, thank you in advance for pointing it out to me.

Norm

PS: I want to update to Open SuSe 10.3 anyway - would that let me clean things up?

renegade600 · #2 November 4th, 2007, 10:55 PM

its been a long while since I used suse. You should be able to boot to the suse installer go into repair mode, and repair grub after you get rid of the partition.

You may also be able to go into YaST and fix grub from there. Start the YaST2 Control Center, system, bootloader configuration (the steps may be different in v10)