On Sunday 19 March 2006 19:52, Craig McLean wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > I want to reorganise partitions on hdb - combining some, to make fewer, > > larger partitions. gparted says that I can't do that, because hdb11 is > > being used as a swap partition. I do have a swap on hda, so could easily > > manage wihout it temporarily. Is there any way to do that without > > rebooting? I removed it from fstab and did 'mount -a', but that doesn't > > solve the problem. I think I'm right in saying that it is not mounted, > > in a conventional sense, so I don't know how to proceed. > > > > Anne > > Anne, > Check the manpages for swapon/swapoff.. > I used gparted to delete a couple of partitions and create a new one, then created a new one at the end, in some unallocated space. Everything looked fine, and it started the final scan - the whole disk is marked Unallocated, and fdisk -l doesn't see anything. Tomorrow I'll try testdisk to see whether it is recoverable, but if fdisk can't see it I'm not hopeful. Anne
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