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Consolidating my 2 ubuntu partitions

Asked by Keith

Due to a less than desireable experience installing of Unbutu on my Dell (went on the gateway no problemo), I currently have a failed install of Unbutu listed as SDA6 taking up 40GB and the working version of Ubuntu on SDA8 taking up 10 gigs, which is the easiest way to consolidate them?

I also have windowsXP on the main partition..... I'm assuming it would be something like going into the windowsXP disk manager and just having the 10GB partition eat up the 40gig, is that correct and what would I need to look out for by doing that?

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zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#1

I believe you have both Ubuntu istall on extended partition.Put Ubuntu luve CD in drive and with it delete sda6 and on that unallocated space you can exted your other partitions.You can do the same with Gparted live CDwitch you can download from gparted.sourceforge.net/.Just in case type in terminal

sudo fdisk -l

and ppost uotput here.

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Keith (lutalo) said : 		#2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10 80293+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 11 6340 50838381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 6340 14162 62836842 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4 14163 14593 3462007+ db CP/M / CTOS / ...
/dev/sda5 13837 14162 2618563+ dd Unknown
/dev/sda6 8382 13607 41968640 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 13607 13836 1840128 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 6340 8291 15674368 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 8291 8382 726016 82 Linux swap / Solaris

// On a side note, another example of how Linux is totally superior to 'mainstream' OS.... I've been using
// USB network adapters for about 6 months due to a 'broken' network adapter....
// Ubuntu appears to have no problem with the network adapter so thumb drive no more :)

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Best zvacet (ivicakolic) said : 		#3

You can delete sda6 & sda7 (because you don´t need two swap partitions).On that unallocated space you can extend your sda8.

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Keith (lutalo) said : 		#4

Thanks zvacet, that solved my question.