[SOLVED] Dual Boot/Swap Question

Hi.

I am dual booting Vista with Ubuntu. I have been having some difficulty with it and so my partitions are a little weird. To make a long story short, the Ubuntu partition is using two swap partitions, each on a different hard drive. I would like to delete one of these but don't know how to do it without messing things up. Here are the details:

On hard drive sda there is an NTFS data partition, a linux partition which I plan on deleting, and a swap partition which I would also like to delete.

On hard drive sdb there is the Vista partition, the Ubuntu partition I want to keep, the swap partition I want to keep, and an NTFS data partition.

Currently the Ubuntu partition on sdb uses both swap partitions--the one on sda and the one on sdb. I want to delete the linux partition and swap partition of sda. How can I do this?


lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for lwpack:

Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000554fa

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 115048 924123028+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 115049 121601 52636972+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 115049 121327 50436036 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 121328 121601 2200873+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x454ca824

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 7012 56320000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 7013 13698 53705295 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 13699 13941 1951897+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb4 13942 121602 864779264 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb5 13699 13941 1951866 82 Linux swap / Solaris
lwpack@lwpack-desktop:~$

Many thanks.

Here's my fstab file:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb2 :
UUID=79d71741-460f-4144-a9b9-65be78194e61 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=a71123a1-d4b3-4f7c-92ab-fe737dca5920 none swap sw 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=56d4c878-0b20-48b6-a89d-c9f5f2e6da9e none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb4 /media/NTFS ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/Videos ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

If I delete the /dev/sda6 entry from the fstab file would it then be ok to delete the sda6 partition?

I think the easy way to do this is ...

Code:

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

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and comment the line for unwanted swap

Code:

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# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
#UUID=a71123a1-d4b3-4f7c-92ab-fe737dca5920 none swap sw 0 0

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then shutdown and restart the system.
After that you can remove/reuse the swap partition.
Use the partition tool on the live CD to remove unwanted partitions.

Ed: after you delete Linux partitions from sda you may find the system does not boot in which case boot from the live CD and reinstall grub using

Code:

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sudo grub
root (hd1,1)
setup (hd0)
quit

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by Jonathan183

I think the easy way to do this is ...

Code:

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

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and comment the line for unwanted swap

Code:

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# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
#UUID=a71123a1-d4b3-4f7c-92ab-fe737dca5920 none swap sw 0 0

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then shutdown and restart the system.
After that you can remove/reuse the swap partition.
Use the partition tool on the live CD to remove unwanted partitions.

Ed: after you delete Linux partitions from sda you may find the system does not boot in which case boot from the live CD and reinstall grub using

Code:

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sudo grub
root (hd1,1)
setup (hd0)
quit

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It worked and I didn't have to reinstall grub. Thanks for the help.

Glad your sorted :) ... can you mark the thread as solved :cool: