how not to initialize HD

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
> On Sat July 31 2010, JB wrote:
>> > > /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>> > > /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
>> > > Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>> > > /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
>> > > /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
>> > > /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap /
>> > > Solaris /dev/sda8            8095       11918    30716248+   c  W95
>> > > FAT32 (LBA)
>> >
>> > already deleted sda8..
>>
>> Paul,
>> so please delete sda7 now, which should be:
>> /dev/sda7           11919       12162     1951744   82  Linux swap /
>>
>> and give me display of:
>> # fdisk -l
>
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>  /dev/sda1   *           1        4462    35840983+   7  HPFS/NTFS
>  /dev/sda3            4718       12162    59793409    5  Extended
>  Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
>  /dev/sda5            4718        5961     9989120   83  Linux
>  /dev/sda6            5962        8094    17133291   83  Linux
>
> so, I just deleted my swap partition. I can safely reboot?

You'll get an error about swap at boot because it will still be in fstab.