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Re: [LUG] Gparted questions

 

On 18/10/13 13:56, Philip Hudson wrote:
If you do use gparted, what you do is delete however many partitions you
want to delete (sounds like just one), all of which are then added to
the unused pool. You then have to create one or more new replacement
partitions from that pool before you can reuse the disk space previously
allocated -- this is the step missing from your conjectured workflow. To
answer your question: It *does* become free space but it is *not* ready
to use. Not til you create a new partition using the freed space.
GParted makes it about as easy as it could be.


Thanks. Just one more question and that is about swap space. Although it is not used so much nowadays when most people have plenty of RAM, is one area of swap all that is required? That is, if I have two or more distros installed using dual boot, is there any need for each one to have some swap?

Thanks

Neil


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