Removing Windows

[chrisjrn]

OK. You subliminally told me exactly how to mount my hda4, and I thank you very much for it

And as for tricking it, I just created a 10MB part at the end of my drive which became hda3, created a real part for hda4 and deleted hda4.



Then I discovered it wasn't necessary, as all I had to do was edit my FStab



Thanks a heap guys!

[mzilikazi]

OK. I tricked my CFDisk into making my new partition 'hda4', which has never before existed on my computer.

I have made it an ext2 partition, as I have had troubles with ext3.

When I try to run 'mount /dev/hda4', it says 'cannot find /dev/hda4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab'


What do I do?

You didn't trick cfdisk. It's quite normal to have /dev/hda4 IF you make 4 primary partitions. Otherwise the extended partitions all reside in partition #4 (if you have 3 other primary parts) and it is therefor not seen by partitioning apps.

Secondly, not being able to mount the drive had absolutely nothinhg to do with fstab. You just needed the full command:

mount /dev/hda4 /mount/point

The file /etc/fstab just makes life easier for you by providing the answer to "mount it where?". Glad you got it working.

[chrisjrn]

Thanks a heap.