10.04 64-bit removal /merge 32-bit partition

Hi

Yes you can use gparted instead as it is easier to understand. Open system >> administration >> synaptic package manager and search for gparted.

Once gparted is installed you might want to restart just in case.

In gparted found in system >> administration select the 64 bit partition and delete that partition. Once deleted then you must re-size to grow the 32 bit partition ONLY if there is nothing in between the 32 and 64 bit partition otherwise it wont work.

ie if win 7 is installed between it then you need to make a plan to move it to the end then merge the other 2 partitions etc

When I tried to delete the 64-bit partition using gparted , a dialog box pops up with:

Unable to delete /dev/sda5!
Please unmount any logical partitions having a number higher than 5

/dev/sda4 is the extended partition which holds /dev/sda5, /dev/sda6 /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8. The 64 bit partitions I want to get rid of are/dev/sda5, /dev/sda6. The 32 bit ones I want to keep are /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8.

Any thoughts?

How can I unmount them if I am using them to operate with?

You can install 64bit flash. It is very supported and adobe make 64bit flash. I have no idea where you head it's not supported but wherever it was, it's wrong

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer

Will give you native 64bit flash

Then flashplugin-installer package will also install flash on 64bit but will install nspluginwrapper in 64bits and use 32bit flash. 64Bit flash runs cleaner though.

If you do choose to run 64bit flash, make sure you remove ALL other flash packages. You can check with:

dpkg -l | grep flash; dpkg -l | grep swf; dpkg -l | grep gnash

should output NOTHING.

Using Ubuntu Software Center to install Flash rather than apt was where I went wrong initially I guess... It said Flash was not available on the Linux 64-bit architecture... I migrated from using an old ibook with ppc so I was used to that kind of limitation... Thanks for the intelligence, though.

you can only use gnash and swf-dec on PPC as Adobe player doesn't work on PPC.

Here is the official flash doc:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/Flash

Would anyone else care to shed some light on using gparted or offer another solution to merge these disparate partitions?

Use the live cd and gparted to merge the partitions. Once in live cd the partitions arent mounted so you wouldnt get the problem.

I'll try that. Thank you for your help.