On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:53 +0100, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > 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. > Most computers can run just fine with no swap at all. It's perfectly > possible to run with no swap during the process of moving / recreating > swap temporarily. Cheers, Al.
ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'? I have an up-to-date Karmic Koala installation, with the desktop and panels adapted to my peculiar tastes, and the only CDs I have are for Intrepid Ibex. I can't see any need to destroy everything I have installed. My idea would be simply to: Make the new swap partition; Switch the machine over to using that; Make a giant new partition from the top of the new swap partition up to the top of the disk; Format that with ext3 and mount it as '/home'. (Do you do this just by changing the indicated mount point on the properties tab?) Restore the contents from my external hard disk backup. I still would like a clearer explanation of the necessity for the command to 'hibernate' the new swap partition, and what exactly the sequence of events and commands should be during the change-over, though, please. And since I intend to end up with just three partitions, why not just call them sda1, sda2, and sda3, and forget about sda4 and its extension, sda5? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
