On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 06:01:29PM +0100, Colin J Thomson wrote: > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 14 4868 38997787+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda3 4869 4998 1044225 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda4 4999 9964 39889395 83 Linux > NOTE I created sda4 (the free space) just to get used to using some of the > Disk Utils, > This is an excact copy (less sda4) of what was on the 40gig drive, So are > you saying I could use parted to resize sda2 if I deleted sda4? You'll probably have to delete sda3 too (since it's in the middle), but that's not a problem, since it's just swap and you can recreate it after making the larger partition. However, I have an alternate suggestion. It's useful to have /home on its own partition, because that way, you can keep your user data isolated from OS data. If you want to switch distributions, or just do an "upgrade" but start from scratch to get a clean slate, you can then leave your /home partition (and all of your user data) untouched, but completely wipe /. I do this all the time, in fact. (You still may want to change the sizes of things.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
