On Apr 14, 2013 11:02 PM, "Alok Singh Mahor" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in backing up or moving data here and there. > > the hard disk scene is > > /dev/sda > /dev/sda1 of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation > /dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free space > /dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive > /dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS > > I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already created so I cant create new partition. > > earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they had C/DVD's of window and drivers > > but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to take long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to waste my time in creating recovery DVD's for them. > > do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important for laptop? > > or suggest me what should I do in such cases? > > or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition? > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
Technically you should be able to merge sda3 and sda4 to become logical on block 3. Then reduce the size of sda2 and make block 4 logical and use that free space. By blocks I mean the 4 blocks of the ms-dos partition table. I am not sure as to what software might help you to do this. - Rahul Ghose NIT, Durgapur
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