Removing Windows

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

That sounds like a good idea, thanks!
I'm confident that I can find the instructions for creating the soft links,
I'll try that tonight!

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 22:27 -0400, Kai Presler-Marshall wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I've run Ubuntu on my Lenovo Thinkpad T400 since April and haven't
> > booted Windows 7 since June, so I think it's time to remove it and
> > free up some drive space for Ubuntu.  How would I go about removing
> > Win7?  I have my 160GB HDD partitioned into 3; 100GB for Ubuntu (ext3
> > IIRC), a 2GB swap partition, and everything else for Win7.  I'd like
> > to loose the last partition and expand the 1st to take up the freed
> > space.
>
> 100 gigs is all that Ubuntu could ever want. You might consider just
> reformatting the last partition same as your Ubuntu partition (ext3) and
> mount it as /opt
>
> Then, it's just a matter of a few soft-links in your home directory to
> redirect ~/Video to /opt/Video, ~/Desktop to /opt/Desktop, etc. Then you
> get to keep everything personal there. Then when it's time for upgrade,
> you don't have to worry about backups, as everything you could wish to
> protect is completely out of the way. I have more gigs in personal stuff
> than I do system stuff, so I wish my /opt directory had been set larger
> than 1/2 of the drive. But, 60 gigs of safe storage is good! It's a
> perspective to consider. Ric
>
>
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