On 24 May 2010 18:00, Rowan Berkeley <[email protected]> wrote: > I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the > various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused > partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems > side by side if they so wish. They say I could dispense with this and > add it to my user space, but between it and the large user space I > already have is a swap partition of 3GB. So, if I wanted to merge the > user spaces into one, I would first have to build a new swap partition > at the bottom of the space. I have no idea how you format a partition as > 'swap', and perhaps all this is not really worth while just to gain 22GB > of extra user space. But it's very interesting. >
You could boot from a live Ubuntu CD and use gparted to:- Delete sda2 (the unwanted partition). Move sda3 down (to the left, nearer the start) of the disk Move sda4 down the disk Grow sda4 up the disk Grow sda5 inside sda4 up the disk Then you'd have reclaimed all the space that extra partition uses. Cheers, Al. -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
