Removing Windows

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

That's a good idea!

I already back up everything to my desktop (Kubuntu 10.04) weekly, but
something automated sounds like it would be nice (I'm very forgetful).  I'll
look into that tonight

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Dave Woyciesjes
<woyciesjes at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Ric Moore 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
> >
> >
>
>         That leads to another idea. GO ahead and reformat the Win partition
> as
> ext3, but instead of moving & keeping your personal stuff on the new
> partition, setup a backup strategy (search the archives, this has been
> discussed many times) to copy all important data to the new partition.
>        Yes, I know that doesn't help if the laptop is stolen, but having a
> copy of an important document is good if you nuke the original during a
> heavy editing session...
>
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