[Gllug] Recovering disk space

[Peter Childs]

On 10/12/06, John G Walker <johngwalker at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> I tried loading a copy of Gentoo yesterday, without much success, and
> I've now got a PC with the partition space all ****ed up. As well as
> failing to install Gentoo, I also lost the copy of Windows XP that I'd
> installed.
>
> The good news is that no data was lost, since there's no data (at the
> moment) on the machine.
>
> What's the easiest way to recover my disk space? I thought of booting
> from a DOS 6.0 floppy and typing format C:, but there must be a more
> elegant way. I could, of course, boot Gentoo from the Live CD and do a
> logical equivalent, if recommended,
>
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>  John
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Does not sound like Format will help you, Try fdisk, or something like
Partition Magic, Even the XP boot disk would do... But Yes the Gentoo
disk would be your best bet given this is a Linux list. Maybe Knoppix,
Ubuntu, Fedora so I don't get into trouble for being bias...

Peter.
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