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Obviously big hard drives serve a purpose for some, but if your only intention is to support 4 primaries thats a bunch wasted GB. But I choose to install the monster so I live with it, but partitioning pre install leaves me scratching my head.
I created 4 large partitions 1 for ntfs (2) for ext3 and a swap.
Installed windows, looked at gparted and no change to my vision. Installed Lenny in second partition under XP I thought and then without thinking in manual partitioning during install I choose a home partition for the first time and then you look at what you have or what happened to your vision and what you feel can only be described as dismay.
Look at the attachment and tell me how to remove home so I can recapture my vision to load another OS and stay within the 4 primary protocol.
I thank you as usual and await replies and jems of wisdom from Jay I am sure

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Hello 77,

Sorry for the delayed response. Ok so it appears that you want to delete the home partition.


You will need to boot from the gparted live cdrom and launch gparted. Next you will have to highlight the home partition. From the partition drop down menu in gparted select Delete. This will delete the partition and allow you to create the new partition using that free space and the unallocated space. Be sure to leave 100MB to use for your boot partition. You will need need one for GRUB during the install process select it as boot.

Here is a great article:

GParted -- Frequently Asked Questions


If you want the instructions from command line please let me know.

Jaysunn

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Jay:
Some folks gotta work and your one of those "some folks" I on the other hand only have to keep forum administrators busy
Ok used your advice recaptured home and utilized my HD to the max. Yea partitions are too large, as is swap, but hey gotta use that space for something. See HD attachment
While I have your attention look at USB attachment.
Choose no to question grub to MBR loaded it to root or the existing partition of the OS. Now tell the old man how to access it
Got all the time in world especially since I have this big fast HD and the recently updated BIOS. I am zipping along.

Thanks much

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OK this will be the best way to do this. Forget about SWAP and BOOT. Will let ubuntu install that for us. Boot into gparted live again. Remove everything. Create 2 partitions like you did before minus the boot and swap pieces. So when done you should have 2 large containers.

Say yes to the warning answers and let the installer the rest. It will create a installation of ubuntu in that new partition.

Give this a try.

Jaysunn

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Jay:
Either I made a mess of explaining things or you glanced at the attachments with something else in mind BUT
HD reflects a good boot into either XP-Lenny or Kubuntu (In fact best shape I have been in long time. But I have reached my 4 primary limit so I intend to use USB drive for OS exploration ans mepis as an example gave me so much trouble with the RAN grub thing that I absolutely do not want to explore any OS that does not allow me to put grub on the same partition as the OS in question. I guess I hear some call it loading it to root. However how does one access such a OS that is not in boot sequence