partition advice

[NoOp]

On 12/08/2009 03:27 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> I need help with partitions again.  I have attached a copy of a screen shot
> from gparted which should help.
> 
> 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 do not know how to get rid of 8.10.   I can not delete it, it
> appears, though I have not tried from a live USB (another problem).  Since
> the 8.10 is not mounted I figure I should be able to delete it and expand
> the data partiion no problem.

Boot to a liveCD and then use gparted; make sure all partitions are
unmounted. In your screenshot all partitions are mounted with the
exceptions of sda2 and sda6.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition