How can i join Partitions 6 and 7?

[frazelle09]

We used to have Win on this machine.  No longer.  i'm trying to recover the disk space by joining partition 6 and 7.  Is this possible?  If so, how should i go about doing it?

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root@localhost frazelle09]# fdisk -l

Disco /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
6 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1292056 cylinders, 488397168 sectores en total
Units = sectores of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificador del disco: 0x0393754d

Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin                Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/sda1   *           0           0                      0          0  Vacía
/dev/sda3       217388934   462618323   122614695    5  Extendida
/dev/sda5       217388997   242579231    12595117+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6       242579295   250770869     4095787+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7       250770933   462618323   105923695+  83  Linux

Have a great afternoon! 

[Old-Polack]

We used to have Win on this machine.  No longer.  i'm trying to recover the disk space by joining partition 6 and 7.  Is this possible?  If so, how should i go about doing it?

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root@localhost frazelle09]# fdisk -l

Disco /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
6 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1292056 cylinders, 488397168 sectores en total
Units = sectores of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Identificador del disco: 0x0393754d

Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin                Bloques  Id  Sistema
/dev/sda1   *           0           0                      0          0  Vacía
/dev/sda3       217388934   462618323   122614695    5  Extendida
/dev/sda5       217388997   242579231    12595117+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6       242579295   250770869     4095787+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7       250770933   462618323   105923695+  83  Linux

Have a great afternoon! 

You cant do that. Both partitions have completely different purposes and different formatting. What you can do is create a new primary partition as /dev/sda1, using all the empty space left from deleting Windows, and format it to a Linux filesystem, like ext3 or ext4, then use it as a data partition, or divide the empty space into as many as three primary partitions and use them for other Linux installations or whatever you wish.

[bicol_willem]

Wonder where you guys see any Windows on that drive     

[Old-Polack]

Wonder where you guys see any Windows on that drive     

We don't... that's the point. Windows was eliminated, and the partition was reduced in size to 0. It should have been Linux formatted or eliminated entirely, so the space could be used for real primary partitions, not a fake 0 sized partition.

[frazelle09]

That sounds like a good idea.  i'll try and eliminate the dev/sda1 partition.

Thanks guys.  i'll keep ya posted.

Have a happy evening!