How to format Linux?

[friend_1]

Hi,

i have installes windows and linux on my laptop. now i want to format Linux partition. can i do that? kindly do the needful.

Thanks,

[Michal Kapalka (mikap)]

hi,

if you like to remove linux from your PC/notebook, you can format and delete the linux partition, but if you do it the the boot manager lilo/grub will be corrupted, so before you are deleting or formating linux partition use utilyties for fixing MBR ( master boot record )

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/termsf/p/fixmbr.htm

mikap

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

No format required.

What you need is a divided hard disk.

Some forms of Linux can actually reduce the size of the windows partition, thereby leaving space for a Linux partition.

Creating a dual boot computer XP and Ubuntu (applies to Vista)
http://oreilly.com/linux/archive/dual-boot-laptop.html

From Red Hat.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/install-guide/ch-x86-dualboot.html

SEP

[Court Campbell]

GO into disk manager, delete the partition, recreate it and format it.

[Kranti Mahmud]

Hi friend,

1. First boot the PC from Windows.
2. Then, from My Computer > go to Manage > Disk Management.
3. Delete the Linux partition.

Rgds-Kranti

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

fdisk -l

fdisk

fdisk /dev/sda

Use the menus to delete everything. w to save.

Note however, this is can be reversed.

It would be trivial for the NSA to totally rebuild your system.

If you really want to make sure the disk is unrecoverable, physically destroy it.

Or:

dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda bs=1024 count=#####

Set the count high enough that the entire disk is written to.

Run it a lot of times or again you system will be recoverable to high tech genius such as the people who do this sort of thing at the National Security Agency. I mention this as an example, not due to any specific knowledge.

SEP