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On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: |
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> I have made an annoying error when setting up my new computer. |
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> I installed Gentoo then winXP and made it dual boot, all of which has |
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> gone fine however when I did this I partitioned my disk as shown the |
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> theory being that I would assign space as required after all |
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> installation. Unfortunatly I made the 4 partitions all primary! and |
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> now I cannot make more partitions to consume the extra space. |
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> Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended |
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> partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions |
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> as required? |
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yes. |
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> Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? |
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yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as a |
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swap partition. |
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> I am being a little over cautious in asking this on list before I try |
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> but after 3 days of compiling I am not in the mood to lose it all to |
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> an avoidable mistake :) |
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you can always remove the windows partition ;) |
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