5.2 Deleting the Windows Partitions from the Disk

The first step in freeing up the Windows partition for use by Fedora is to delete that partition. Before doing so, however, it is imperative that any data you need to keep is backed up from both the Windows and Fedora partitions. Having done that, it is safe to proceed with this chapter.

In order to remove the Windows partitions we first need to identify the disk on which they reside using the fdisk tool:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0xe3673009

 

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/sda1 * 2048 1126399 1124352 549M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda2 1126400 53655551 52529152 25G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

/dev/sda3 53655552 55752703...