partition advice

Gary Kirkpatrick pegngary at gmail.com
Wed Dec 9 01:20:06 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I need help with partitions again.
> >
> > This Dell notebook came with 8.1 installed.  I do not want it any more.
> I
> > have 9.10 installed in both English and Spanish (so I can teach it here
> in
> > Panama).   I just added the Spanish version.
> >
> > I do not know how to get rid of 8.10.   It is in SDA /1.  The Spanish
> > version of 9.10 is in SDA5 (under sda1).  The English version of 9.10 is
> in
> > sda/4.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > gary
>
> I know this will not sound helpful, but if you need to ask, there's a
> fairly good chance that in trying to remove it, you will make your
> system unbootable.
>
> My suggestion would be:
>
> Back up your documents and settings and start over.
>
> Here is how I suggest you partition the drive:
>
> [primary 20GB ext3 for the main root filesystem]
> [extended partition for whole rest of drive
>  [logical drive with other language version of Ubuntu if desired - 20GB
> ext3]
>  [more logicals if you want 3 or more versions of ubuntu installed]
>  [logical drive, all rest of space, for /home]
>  [logical drive, 2x physical RAM, for swap]
> [end of extended partition]
>
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Thanks to you both!  Not sure what I will do.  It works like it is, after
all, and I have plenty of space.

I looked to write over the 8.10 partition when I was installing the Spanish
version but it did not allow me to do so.
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