partitions

[aproan]

i bought a new harddrive so i am emptying my Windows XP on that hda. However, in my old hard drive (sda) I had windowsxp, linux (ext3), boot, and swap.

I understand how I can use fdisk to eliminate windows xp partition but how do I join that new empty partition with my Linux partition?

joining sda1 and sda3, that's what I want to do.

BTW, do you guys recommend using fdisk or some other app?

[potatoface]

i have never done that before but i did a quick search and found out that you can do this with gparted.....
i would look at the features at http://gparted.sourceforge.net to see if gparted can do what you want but it looks good to me...

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[blurp]

if you used fdisk, you will remove both sda1 and sda3! Try the gnu parted live CD if you prefer terminal interface.

[aproan]

so fdisk isnt as strong as i thought it was?

[blurp]

fdisk is a primitive tool that does only partitioning and labeling. It doesn't recognise file systems.