Unable to delete partition

[Karl Larsen]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>   
>> I need to rid myself of a partition, upon which I happen to have
>> installed Kubuntu.  Gparted won't permit it.  It says "please unmount
>> any partition greater than 5."  The partition is sda5, so the response
>> is not logical. Unmount is greyed out.  
>>     
>
> Yes, it is geyed out for sda5, but you should umount the other logical 
> partitions. And if one of the locical partitions is your swap partition, 
> switch off swap as well (command "sudo swapoff -a" in a terminal).
>
> Deleting logical partitions is a bit tricky because they will be renamed 
> afterwards, i.e. sda6 becomes sda5, sda7 becomes sda6, etc. Therefore the 
> other partitions may not be in use. And take care of /etc/fstab 
> and /boot/grub/menu.lst of your current system, if you are still using 
> device names instead of UUIDs for partition.
>
>   
>> Tried to do the same procedure 
>> in Partition Eidtor after booting from a live cd, same results.  Any
>> suggestions?  Current version of ubuntu is in sda7.
>>     
>
> I suppose one of the logical partitions sda5, sda6, etc. is your swap 
> partition which would be used by the live CD automatically. Then you 
> should switch off swap first (see above).
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
    My fix would be to just put a new file system on that /dev/sda5 and 
it is ready for another load when you want it. To do this use $ sudo 
mkfs.ext3 -L name /dev/sda5 and it is done. Your new partition is ready 
to go.

Karl


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