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Old 21-Oct-2007, 10:16
barryhenry
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Hello everyone!

I did some looking around on my laptop last night, and couldn't seem to find a swap partition installed on my system. I am running a single hard drive with a few different partitions on it. Here is the read out I get if I run parted>print.

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 20.1GB 20.1GB primary ntfs boot, , , , , , , , , typ e=07, ,
2 20.1GB 40.0GB 19.9GB extended , , , , , , lba, , , type =0f, ,
5 20.1GB 20.8GB 748MB logical , , , , , , , , , type=82 , ,
6 20.8GB 28.7GB 7830MB logical ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83 , ,
7 28.7GB 40.0GB 11.4GB logical ext3 , , , , , , , , , type=83 , ,

I think that what I need to do is resize one of these partitions to be able to create a dedicated swap partition. If I try to resize one of these through Parted, it says that I need to "unmount the hard drive that I want to resize", there must be an other way, because I don't think that I can unmount my one and only hard drive, right?