how to reclaim disk space occupied by my old distro

[CogSci]

Hi,
I installed Gentoo (latest version from tarball stage 3) from within my SuSE. I like Gentoo much better. Therefore I'd like to erase SuSE and reclaim the space on my HD. Here the situation:

hda1 1.5G Win95 M$-Windows 98
hda2 32.6G Linux SuSE /
hda3 725M Swap Gentoo
hda4 Extended
hda5 37M Linux Gentoo /boot
hda6 4.1G Linux Gentoo /

hdb1 3.8G Linux (SuSE /boot?)
hdb2 400M Swap SuSE
hdb3 18M FAT 16 no clue what's on here

I'd like to keep hda1 containing Win98, and everything that belongs to Gentoo (hda3-5-6). Then I'd like to get rid of the rest and add it to hda6 (Gentoo /).

Is this possible? If yes, how?
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Best regards,
CogSci

[pjp]

The first step would be to delete the SUSE partitions. You could leave the swap on hdb and add it to Gentoo's list of available swap. Swap space across multiple physical drives can improve performance, though I'm not sure if varying sizes is important.

Once the extra space is available on hda, you should be able to add it to the extended partition. From there, you can create new partitions available to Gentoo.

How you actually go about moving / from one partition to another, I'll leave to the other threads that cover it (mainly because I've not done it myself yet). I think there are several threads in Other Things Gentoo that discuss it.


Moved from Installing Gentoo.
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