[gentoo-user] Disk partition query

[Stuart Howard]

I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer.
I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has
gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the
theory being that I would assign space as required after all
installation. Unfortunatly I made the 4 partitions all primary! and
now I cannot make more partitions to consume the extra space.

Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended
partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions
as required?

Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition?

I am being a little over cautious in asking this on list before I try
but after 3 days of compiling I am not in the mood to lose it all to
an avoidable mistake :)

Thanks
	stu

Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14          78      522112+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              79        2628    20482875   83  Linux
/dev/sda4   *        2629        6275    29294527+   7  HPFS/NTFS

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