Deleting One Operating System From A Triple Boot

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Last year I bought a HP 6730s laptop with Windows XP Pro pre-installed. Shortly thereafter I used Disk Director to carve out a 100 GB partition into which I installed Suse Linux 11.2. Today I installed a copy of Ubuntu 10.04, allowing Ubuntu to make its own partitions. Disk Director now shows:
NTFS (C:) Pri 131.8 GB (capacity) 83.76 GB (used) NTFS
HP_TOOLS (D:) Pri 1.004 GB (capacity) 0.999 GB (used) Fat 32
Linux Swap 2.007 GB Linux Swap
Ext 3 20 GB Ext 3
Ext 3 39.21 GB Ext 3
Ext 3 37.26 GB Ext 3
Linux Swap 1.638 GB Linux Swap
I would like to delete Suse and keep Windows and Ubuntu. Should I delete the first Linux swap partition (2.007 GB), and the first two Ext 3 partitions (20 GB, and 39.21 GB)? Is it safe to use the Ubuntu Disk Utility? Is it safer to use Disk Director? Should I delete Suse with the OS selector tool?

Mer, 07/28/2010 - 22:27
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You should be able to delete the unnecessary partitions (make sure you delete the correct Swap partition).

I would think that either DD or Ubuntu's utility should work fine. Note that before you make partitioning changes, it's recommended to create an Entire Disk Image backup (just in case anything goes wrong).

Suse can be deleted from the OSS menu after it's removed from the drive.

Ven, 07/30/2010 - 17:53