<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <<a href="mailto:pegngary@gmail.com">pegngary@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > I need help with partitions again. > > This Dell notebook came with 8.1 installed.а I do not want it any more.а I > have 9.10 installed in both English and Spanish (so I can teach it here in > Panama).аа I just added the Spanish version. > > I do not know how to get rid of 8.10.аа It is in SDA /1.а The Spanish > version of 9.10 is in SDA5 (under sda1).а The English version of 9.10 is in > sda/4. > > thanks > > gary </div></div>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 а[logical drive with other language version of Ubuntu if desired - 20GB ext3] а[more logicals if you want 3 or more versions of ubuntu installed] а[logical drive, all rest of space, for /home] а[logical drive, 2x physical RAM, for swap] [end of extended partition] -- Liam Proven Х Profile: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven</a> Email: <a href="mailto:lproven@cix.co.uk">lproven@cix.co.uk</a> Х GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: <a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a> Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 Х Cell: +44 7939-087884 Х Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven Х LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: <a href="mailto:lproven@hotmail.com">lproven@hotmail.com</a> Х ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a></blockquote><div> Thanks to you both!а Not sure what I will do.а It works like it is, after all, and I have plenty of space.а 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.а </div></div>