LVM deletion problem

[Chrispr]

I have a laptop that is dual booted with XP and FC4. I used the autopartition feature in FC4, so it used LVM to partition my hard drive. I would like to install FC5 and resize my windows partition, however, I cannot delete the LVM partition on my hard drive.

I have tried to use partition magic 8 in a windows environment. It recognizes the partition as an unsupported filesystem and I get an error when I try to delete it. I also tried to use fdisk, and I get errors when I try to delete it as well. I can't delete a partition in a linux environment, since that is active partition, so how on earth do I get rid of this thing? I tried to google this but I didn't find anything that was very clear.

 

[stevexff]

Well, there must be a linux tool to remove it. Perhaps you could use one of the many distro-on-a-disk systems to boot off the CD, and get at it that way?

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[ericbrunson]

Boot of the Fedora rescue disk and use fdisk to delete the partition.