On Monday 15 January 2007 16:41, Geir A. Myrestrand wrote: > > /dev/hda Disk 37.2G > > /dev/hda1 HPFS/NTFS 35G 18G 18G > > 50% /windows/C > > /dev/hdb Disk 74.5G > > /dev/hdb1 HPFS/NTFS 29G 25G 3.5G > > 88% /windows/D > > /dev/hdb2 Extended 33.3G > > /dev/hdb6 Linux Native 13G 8.6G 4.2G > > 68% / /dev/hdb7 Linux Native 19G 17G > > 2.3G 89% /home > > > > Ideally I would like to reallocate /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hdb2 then /dev/hdb7
You should read up on how partitions are numbered and what types there are first. For example: Primary partitions - numbered 1 thru 4 and you can only have 4 of them. One of those 4 *can* be an 'extended' partition such as you have with hdb2. Extended partition - is a partition which can hold 'logical' partitions... numbered 5 and up you can have more loigical partitions than you are likely to need except in the case of SATA (scsi) drives here you are limited to 15 (I think) Logical partitions -numbered 5 and up and are all contained in the extended partition. So to delete hdb1 and provide the space to hdb2 is fine (by moving the start of hdb2 up on the disk) but that wouldn't buy you anything until you also expanded hdb6 or 7 or make more partitions like 8,9, etc. You could also just reformat hdb1 and use it for linux. BTW, where is your swap space?
