How To FDISK in order to remove/merge partitions?

[Bob Nielsen]

You can delete the partition with fdisk, but that will not merge it  
with another partition.  Gparted/qtparted will do both tashk.

On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:07 PM, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:

> Okay, the question is then how do I remove my /dev/hda2/ and merge it
> to /dev/hda3/ given by the fdisk output?
>
>
>> Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
>> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>>
>>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/hda1   *           1        3824    30716248+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> /dev/hda2            3825        7740    31455270   a5  FreeBSD
>> /dev/hda3            7741       14758    56372085   83  Linux
>> /dev/hda4           14759       14946     1510110    5  Extended
>> /dev/hda5           14759       14946     1510078+  82  Linux  
>> swap / Solaris
>
>
>
> On 1/19/06, Scott <angrykeyboarder at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> Soo-Hyun Choi wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a system which has three operation systems (WinXP, FreeBSD,
>>> and Ubuntu). Nowadays, I found myself that I'm not using FreeBSD  
>>> very
>>> much in this machine, so I would like to delete FreeBSD partition to
>>> give more HDD space for Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> This is my fdisk print out.
>>
>> [snip]
>>>
>>
>> Personally I'd go the easy GUI route and use either GParted or  
>> QTParted
>> to accomplish this.
>>
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