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Topic: Re-partitioning challenges

I did have a partitioning structure with an extended and 2 logical partitions. It had XP and 8.04 along with a swap in a dual boot that was working great until I decided to restructure, burn a 8.10 and install. Burn and installation went fine however and I have no explanation or excuse except to plead new user.
What I did with the gparted CD in terms of restructuring is a mess to say the least. Now if I knew how to find the snap I took of HD in gparted I would share it with you. Short of that this is the best I can do

allen@allen-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
[sudo] password for allen:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders, total 78140160 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x99d799d7

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *          63    30860864    15430401    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3        30860865    78140159    23639647+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5        76421268    78140159      859446   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        30860991    74429144    21784077   83  Linux
/dev/sda7        74429208    76421204      995998+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 1006 MB, 1006632960 bytes
31 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders, total 1966080 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
gparted will not allow me to delete that extended and my vision is
NTFS sda1
Swap sda2
sda3 for 8.10
As far as functioning properly it is now however I would like access to windows files from Linux with nautilus and that is the partitioning they suggest.
Please advise with specifics and any other suggestions that the results of the sudo fdisk -lu indicate.

Thank you so much

Allen Meyers
texas.chef94@gmail.com

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Re: Re-partitioning challenges

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Re: Re-partitioning challenges

In lieu answering what is obviously a involved post might I ask since my live CD is not allowing me to delete the extended for whatever reason can someone tell me how to delete extended from gparted, command line or some option and I will attempt to complete this repartitioning.

Thank you

Allen

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Re: Re-partitioning challenges

Hi,

to delete the extended partition, you must first delete all the logical partitions within it.
If GParted does not let you do this (could be because of the way the logical partitions are distributed across the extended partition), you can easily do this using the command-line fdisk:
Start fdisk with root privileges (i.e. via sudo)

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

Then, the [p] key will print the current partition table. With the [d] key, you delete one partition; the partition number fdisk asks for at this point can be taken from the partition list. First delete all the logical partitions (the ones starting with sda5), after this the extended one (sda3). Check again (using the [p] key) that everything looks all right.
Until nowm the nwew partition structure only exists in your computer's RAM; it has not been written to disk. o if you made a mistake, you can simply quit fdisk by hitting the [q] key - this will let you drop back to the command line without writing the new partitioning to disk, so effectively nothing will be cghanged, ynd you can start over again.
If you're confident with the new partitioning, write it to disk using the [w] key instead.

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Re: Re-partitioning challenges

Thank you I will give it a shot. I am sure it is something I have done as I originally set up extended with 2 logicals. Later determined wanted to keep it simple and deleted logicals, bur extended eluded my attempt to delete