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installed twice - now i have 2 50 gig ubuntus?

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I installed Ubuntu and then there were some problems so I installed it again; however, I now have 2 separate partitiona, each with a full installation, and neither are acessible from one another

Is there any way to at least access one partition from the other>>

or, better yet, to combine the first into the second??

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Luca Falavigna (dktrkranz) said : 		#1

Could you provide some information about your configuration?
What is your root partition? hda1? sda1?
Which filesystem did you select during installation? ReiserFS? Ext3?

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Carthik Sharma (carthik) said : 		#2

When you are logged into Ubuntu (Either one) run the command
$fstab

This will give you the filesystem table for the currently used OS. Make a note of the partitions they are on. (hda1 etc)

Now use a partition tool like gparted (you may have to install it first) and reformat the other partition with Ubuntu on it to a ext3 drive.

You are now free to mount and use the newly formatted drive.

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fatsheep (jesse-fatsheep-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Try using the Gparted LiveCd to delete one partition and expand the other to fill it's place. Keep in mind partitions can only be expanded to the right.

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fatsheep (jesse-fatsheep-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Here's the link to the LiveCD:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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