I am recent convert to Ubuntu and just loving it. Right now, I can access my windows drive from ubuntu, however, I want to delete the windows partition and make it an ubuntu partition. I have already backed up my data. How do I go about it.
If you're using Ubuntu 12.10, you can format your partition by opening the Disks application, select the partition, click the two cogs icon below and select format.
Then choose ext4 as the file system type. Your windows NTFS partition is now a Linux ext4 partition.
If you want it to automount at boot, you may want to modify your /etc/fstab file.
Create your mount point. You may choose to mount wherever you want but normally partitions are mounted either under /media or under /mnt. The former place would make the partition easily unmountable like a pendrive while the latter is more "permanent".
Open a terminal (ctrl + alt + t) and type sudo mkdir /mnt/choosename. Change choosename to whatever you like.
Type sudo blkid and copy the UUID of your drive.
Press Alt + F2 and type gksudo gedit /etc/fstab, then add a line like this:
UUID=your-UUID-here /mnt/choosename ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
Once you reboot, your partition will be present in the selected mount point.
