.A way to delete old installs of Ubuntu

Andrew Farris flyindragon1 at aol.com
Thu Aug 6 17:40:34 UTC 2009


On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 10:22 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
> Well that for the most part would work.  Though the OP didn't specify if
> he had a dual boot situation or if he only has several versions of
> Ubuntu installed.  If it's a dual boot, then your suggestion would work
> if he wanted to add the freed space back to the other OS in the dual
> boot situation.  Now if he just has Ubuntu, then he won't be able to add
> the freed space back unless he uses a live CD to do it as you can't
> modify a mounted partition.

Good point... didn't think about the fact that the filesystem would be
mounted while he was trying to modify it. my bad :)


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Andrew
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