Remove Partitions in 10.3.9 Using Terminal

[beatsme]

is there a free way to remove partitions on a PowerMac G4 running 10.3.9? I'm pretty sure you can resize volumes in Terminal, but what I'd like is to do away with about 3 partitions on my HD altogether.

I know iPartition will do it, but I'm a little leery of spending that kind of money for something I'll use probably once.

 

[SmurfBoxMasta]

back-up, reformat, & reinstall using disk utility...free as free can be

Stay away from the terminal unless you know what you are doing (very powerful, not for newbies), or someone here offers the appropriate commands that you can copy & paste......

 

[beatsme]

back-up, reformat, & reinstall using disk utility...free as free can be

well yea, but the idea is to not do that.

I feel very comfortable working in terminal.