Art Alexion on 13 Jan 2005 20:07:24 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] reuse old os partition


Stephen Gran wrote:

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:26:56PM -0500, Art Alexion said:


After a couple of months of testing Debian-based Ubuntu, I am ready to
abandon my old red hat OS partition.  (the red hat home directories
have their own partitions)

What is the best way to do that? cfdisk or just a reformat?


rm -rf? It's up to you - both Debian and RedHat use the same
filesystems, so you could either reformat, or just blow away.


deleting them should be fine.  I just wasn't sure.




what changes to grub? Just delete the red hat entry from the
menu.list, or do I have to get rid of the boot images of the red hat
system somehow?



Just deleting the entries from menu.lst should do it, AIUI.


OK. I wasn't sure where the boot images were stored (/ or /boot, or somewhere outside the file system, hence the repartitioning/reformatting question.)

Thanks for your help.


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