.A way to delete old installs of Ubuntu

[valhalla2100 at comcast.net]

Hello,

I do have dual boot.  The other is XP, which I don't
plan to use.  I only installed it so I could install
Ubuntu.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Smith" <rasmith1959 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 6, 2009 8:22:10 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: Re: .A way to delete old installs of Ubuntu

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 05:46 +0000, valhalla2100 at comcast.net wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to delete old installs of Ubuntu. Can not access them.
>> Had to do a new install. 
>>
>> This was asked before but I lost access to the email in a
>> previous install.
>>     
>
> well... you could still do as my previous post directs, but you could do
> it from inside ubuntu using gparted, and skip the mbr steps. just
> install gparted (listed as "Partition Editor" i believe, in Add/Remove),
> find your old partitions, delete them, then stretch your new partitions
> over them.
>
> shouldnt be too hard, provided you take care not to delete any working
> partitions :)
>   

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.

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