I was a newbie while installing linux mint 17.2 in my laptop. So I allocated more than 20GB for my swap memory and 30Gb for ext4 partition. Now only I realized that swap memory is using instead of RAM while running memory overwhelming applications.I have 4GB of DDR3 RAM so no need of this much of swap memory.So I want to add some memory space from swap to Ext4. Is there any idea for deleting or decreasing the swap memory and add that memory to EXT4 partition? The details of my hard disk given bellow .I'm using Linux mint 17.2 64 bit and windows 8 pro with media center 64 bit in dual boot.
$parted
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print
Model: ATA Hitachi HTS54757 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 750GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 210GB 210GB primary ntfs
3 210GB 421GB 211GB primary ntfs
4 421GB 750GB 329GB extended lba
7 421GB 451GB 30.0GB logical ext4
8 451GB 473GB 22.4GB logical linux-swap(v1)
5 473GB 579GB 106GB logical ntfs
6 579GB 750GB 171GB logical ntfs
(parted)
If the solution will not effect my windows files then let me know the solution. Actually I found some solutions but most of them are suggesting 'GParted ISO '.