Ok Arnuld, Thanks for replying and for the info. I am sorry I was not clear enough.
The "A+" I refer to is COMPTIA A+. So it means I have to work with Microsoft Windows and that is why I am working in a dual boot environment and how this issue arose. I do search for info often but often useful information is contained in other peoples' requests for info. And useful information is found in the replies. As in this case. Thankyou! You say you don't use a desktop. I use one because I'm not yet proficient enough with the command-line. Also because I want to encourage others to use Free Software and without a GUI I think this will be very difficult. I will check out the suggestions you have made. Thanks again, Keith On Sat, 2014-10-04 at 23:42 +0530, arnuld uttre wrote: > > On 10/4/14, Keith Ball <gwa...@eircom.net> wrote: > > So far, no reply to my query about shellshock. Am I looking in the > > wrong place? > > There are not many GNU/Linux users who are quite strict about making > their machines run an 100% free software. So volume of posts is quite > low in this and other relevant mailing lists. > > > > > .. SNIP .. > > I was working through some A+ course material and while putting theory > > into practice I found that it seems I could, from Windows, apparently > > delete the swapfile partition used by gNewSense. (I didn't want to risk > > trying to see if I could delete any of the other Linux partitions.) > > > ... SNIP ... > > > Can anyone help please? > > I do not know what is A+ course and have never seen the disk utility. > I have not used any desktop from several years now. I simply use a > Window Manager (StumpWM), a file manager (midnight-commander) and > X-terminal (xfce4-terminal). So I con not help you with GUI > solutions. You can check the swap partition using two commnds: > "free -h" and "swapon s" > > Try searching on google several times before you post and wait for the > answers. It will save you a lot of time and frustration. There is > frustrationin in searching and looking for an answer to your questions > on Google and you will only postpone the frustration by posting and > waiting for answers. Frustration will be there both ways hence one > better solve problems faster :) > > Thanks > > > -- arnuld > http://uttre.wordpress.com/ > http://lispmachine.wordpress.com/2010/12/08/extract-of-programming/ > > _______________________________________________ > gNewSense-users mailing list > gNewSense-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list gNewSense-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users