Re-claiming Linux partiton for Solaris

Hi,
I installed my PC (acer TravelMate 260) as a dual boot (Linux & Solaris 10) which works fine. But now I find myself using Linux less and less so I would like to format its partition with ufs and mount it as /scratch or so. (The Solaris partition is a bit small and I start running out of space.)
Can this be done?
Or do I really have to re-partition the drive into one big (primary) partition and re-install Solaris on that one?
Cheers, Peter.
PS. Some things appear easier under Linux...

I don't think this is possible since Solaris uses one fdisk partition in which it uses slices to "split" it. But it can only use on of those fdisk partitions per harddisk.
What you could consider is checking what other filesystems Solaris supports (I'm pretty sure I read stories about it knowing about fat32) and simply use a Windows or Linux disk to repartition and change the Linux partition into a fat32 partition (not forgetting to layout the filesystem itself).

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