Trouble Removing Partitions

Okay folks, I am trying to remove partitions from my hard drive that I made for when I installed Linux Mint on my machine last fall.
Awhile back, I uninstalled Mint per instructions, however, I have been stumped as to how to reclaim space for those partitions (about 140 GB)
I go into Disk Utility, select my Hitachi Drive, click the partitions I want to delete, and hit the minus button in Disk Utility, then click remove, btu the utility gets frozen in "preparing to remove volumes" and makes no progess from that point!
How do I fix this and get rid of these partitions so I can get that disk space back?
runnning 10.5.8 on my 2.93 GHz Macbook Pro unibody.

Get your files off and c boot off the installer disk and Disk Utility Erase with Zero and format the drive HFS+ journaled and reinstall OS X. You might as well fresh install Snow Leopard while your at it and can still get it from Apple (hurry once Lion is out your screwed!)
Next time look at using rEFIt and setting it up that way it's a EFI program, there are uninstall instructions too.
http://lifehacker.com/5531037/how-to-triple+boot-your-mac-with-windows-and-linux -no-boot-camp-required
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages
This artilce is a bit old, for Snow Leopard and Ubuntu 10.10, but once you've go it up and going, you upgrade to 11.04.
Then "Unity 3D" won't work, but you can enable Unity 2D here
http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-install-unity-2d-qt-in-ubuntu-10-10-and-11-04
You might want to play some cool games for Linux before killing it.
http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-linux-software
Remeber to use Hardware Drivers to get your video card drivers for your machine.

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┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 29G 6.3G 22G 23% /
dev 1.7G 0 1.7G 0% /dev
run 1.7G 404K 1.7G 1% /run
/dev/sdb2 29G 6.3G 22G 23% /
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/dev/sde1 299G 113G 186G 38% /media/mydrive
┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo pvscan
PV /dev/sdc1 VG dabox-storage lvm2 [1.36 TiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sda2 VG dabox-storage lvm2 [244.38 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdb1 VG dabox-storage lvm2 [366.19 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sdd1 VG dabox-storage lvm2 [931.51 GiB / 0 free]
PV /dev/sda1 VG dabox-storage lvm2 [53.70 GiB / 0 free]
Total: 5 [2.92 TiB] / in use: 5 [2.92 TiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ]
┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo vgscan
Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while...
Found volume group "dabox-storage" using metadata type lvm2
┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo lvscan
ACTIVE '/dev/dabox-storage/stuff' [2.92 TiB] inherit
┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─>
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Finding volume group "dabox-storage"
No extents available for allocation
┌─[ 09/17/12 01:21:37 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo pvmove -v /dev/sda1
Finding volume group "dabox-storage"
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--- Physical Segments ---
Physical extent 0 to 357698:
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--- Physical volume ---
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VG Name dabox-storage
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--- Physical volume ---
PV Name /dev/sdb1
VG Name dabox-storage
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Allocatable yes (but full)
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Total PE 93744
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 93744
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--- Physical Segments ---
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Logical volume /dev/dabox-storage/stuff
Logical extents 420260 to 514003
--- Physical volume ---
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VG Name dabox-storage
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Allocatable yes (but full)
PE Size 4.00 MiB
Total PE 238466
Free PE 0
Allocated PE 238466
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--- Physical Segments ---
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Logical volume /dev/dabox-storage/stuff
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--- Physical volume ---
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Free PE 0
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--- Physical Segments ---
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slytux wrote:
pvmove and the partition by itselfy may not be enough, you could specify the target to move to as the second argument to pvmove.
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pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
Yup, have tried that with all sorts of combinations:
└─> sudo pvmove /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/sdc1"
No specified PVs have space available
┌─[ 09/17/12 11:27:53 PM ][ ~ ]
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┌─[ 09/17/12 11:27:53 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo pvmove /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/sdb1"
No specified PVs have space available
┌─[ 09/17/12 11:27:53 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo pvmove /dev/sda1 /dev/sdc1
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/sdc1"
No specified PVs have space available
┌─[ 09/17/12 11:27:53 PM ][ ~ ]
└─> sudo pvmove /dev/sda1 /dev/sdd1
No free extents on physical volume "/dev/sdd1"
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