partition advice

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

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]
>

Would the procedure be:  1) install 9.10 and have the installer wipe the
disk then create extended partition for rest of space 2) create logical
drive for Spanish version  3) create logical drive for rest of space for
data storage 4) logical drive 2x ram for swap.

If i can just delete the sda1 and did not have to reinstall ubuntu and all
the data files that would be the easiest thing to do, tho perhaps not a
whole lot easier.  If that fails can I then do as you suggested and start
over, or can I get myself into more trouble?

thanks

gary
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