when to resize partitions

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

Ashley Benton wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Stephen Constantinou 
> <stephanos at writeme.com <mailto:stephanos at writeme.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear All
>
>     I have a PC with a 160 GB HDD.  It is partitioned as follows
>
>                SIZE      USED
>     sda1 fat16    41MB    33MB
>     sda2 ntfs  78279MB 56634MB
>     sda4 fat32  3380MB  2366MB
>
>     sda5  ext3  4186MB   604MB
>     sda6  swop  4186MB     0MB
>     sda7  ext3  8381MB  3316MB
>     sda8  ext3 28697MB  1216MB
>     sda9  ext3 28648MB  6842MB
>     sda10 ext3  4194MB   100MB
>
>
>     It boots XP and Mandriva.  My intention was to install Kubunto 8.10 to
>     replace Mandriva.  I thought I knew what I was doing until I got the
>     Prepare Diskspace section of the installer.
>
>     Any guidance and help appreciated.
>
>
> I would use gparted to delete the partition (mandriva) and create an 
> empty partition, then install kubuntu on the new created partition
>
> Sincerely
>
> Meg

Or maybe you could delete all Mandriva partitions except the old /home 
(sda10, I guess) to preserve any valuable data, resize or move it as 
needed, and then create your new Kubuntu partitions (as always, at least 
root , /home , /swap). (Of course, this is basically what Meg told you, 
in other words).

I would also check if you still need DOS (sda1?) and Windows 98 or 
shared area (sda4?).

Regards,

L.


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