On Montag, 30. April 2007, Stuart Howard wrote: > 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?
yes. > > Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition? yes, but you don't need a swap partition. A swapfile will work as fine as a swap 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 :) you can always remove the windows partition ;) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
