mgh;203053 Wrote: > I once thought I understood extended and primary partitions, but > probably didn't even then. > > At any rate, the four partitions were made by Linux installers. (and > please understand I am NOOB) I installed PCLinuxOS, and made a > partition for swap and a partition for the OS, then installed Ubuntu > with a swap and a partition for the OS, which gave me the 4 primary. I > would have no idea now how to make an extended and not affect what I > have for Linux. > > Thanks
You don't need two separate swap partitions, you can delete one of them and then create an extended partition (PCLinuxOS or Ubuntu will find the swap partition that remains). Within the extended partition you can then create up to 15 logical partitions. This can be done with "gparted", that you first have to install with synaptic. Be sure that you understand what you are doing though because you can loose all data if you delete wrong partition(s). -- stroom ========================================== Squeezebox 3 // Synology DS101j Last.FM // AlienBBC ------------------------------------------------------------------------ stroom's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9612 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35188 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
