[ubuntu-in] four window primary partition problem

[Rahul Ghose]

On Apr 14, 2013 11:02 PM, "Alok Singh Mahor" <alokmahor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
> I have to install Linux on one friends laptop without wasting time in
backing up or moving data here and there.
>
> the hard disk scene is
>
> /dev/sda
>    /dev/sda1  of about 100MB which is part of window 7 installation
>    /dev/sda2 of about 300GB which contains window 7 OS, have lot of free
space
>    /dev/sda3 of about 10GB which is recovery drive
>    /dev/sda4 of about 100MB which is HP_TOOLS
>
> I will use free space from sda2. but 4 primary partitions are already
created so I cant create new partition.
>
> earlier I used to convince people to delete Recovery partition as they
had C/DVD's of window and drivers
>
> but some people dont have CD/DVS's of window and drivers so I have to
take long time to decide what should I do in this case as I dont want to
waste my time in creating recovery DVD's for them.
>
> do anyone have idea how much HP_TOOLS (sda4) is significant? what if I
delete this small partition? does this drive contains something important
for laptop?
>
> or suggest me what should I do in such cases?
>
> or can we convert primary partition to extended/logical partition?
>
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Technically you should be able to merge sda3 and sda4 to become logical on
block 3. Then reduce the size of sda2 and make block 4 logical and use that
free space. By blocks I mean the 4 blocks of the ms-dos partition table.

I am not sure as to what software might help you to do this.

-
Rahul Ghose
NIT, Durgapur
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