So I am using a bootable usb with 12.04 on it to run gparted. What I would like to do is keep the win7 partition and merge/redo the other partitions for ubuntu use. I am not quite sure what the best route to take would be. I don't mind reinstalling ubuntu if needed. I really just want the 15.42GB unallocated to be usable by ubuntu for saving files.
Well since I can't post a picture it will probably be impossible to answer....
Here are the partitions in order from left to right in gparted.
- unallocated 64mb
- sda2 ext4 10gb
- sda3 ntfs 121gb
- unallocated 15.42gb
- sda1 extended 2.5gb
sda5 linux-swap 2.5gb
Here is the fdisk results from the drive.
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 307337214 312580095 2621441 5 Extended
/dev/sda2 129024 21100543 10485760 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 21100544 275006793 126953125 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 307337216 312580095 2621440 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/sdb: 1999 MB, 1999568384 bytes
62 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders, total 3905407 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00018276
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 62 3901659 1950799 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Disk /dev/sdc: 64 MB, 64487424 bytes
2 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders, total 125952 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6f20736b
This doesn't look like a partition table
Probably you selected the wrong device.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 ? 778135908 1919645538 570754815+ 72 Unknown
/dev/sdc2 ? 168689522 2104717761 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
/dev/sdc3 ? 1869881465 3805909656 968014096 79 Unknown
/dev/sdc4 ? 2885681152 2885736650 27749+ d Unknown
Here is the fstab file
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda2 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=777828dd-00e5-4efe-a616-3e70949d6559 none swap sw 0 0
Current free-m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1885 1268 616 0 152 769
-/+ buffers/cache: 346 1538
Swap: 2499 0 2499