Hard Drive Re-partitioning

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?

try Gparted livecd found here http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php wonderful piece of software

andy

"LIVE CD?" So this means that my one and only hard drive will be unmounted? NEAT! Am I correct in wanting to make a dedicated swap partition? I'd like to get just a little more umf out of this system.

"LIVE CD?" So this means that my one and only hard drive will be unmounted? NEAT! Am I correct in wanting to make a dedicated swap partition? I'd like to get just a little more umf out of this system.
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Yes and a /home if you don't have one

/Geoff

What would be the best program to use to burn the .iso image for the live cd? Do I need to run an md5 checksum on the downloaded .iso? If I do, what would be the best program for that?

burn with k3b, the best burner on Linux, used by 99% of Linux users. k3b has a md5 checker built-in all you have to do,is, open k3b,click on tools,burn cd iso, browse to the iso & k3b will display the md5 after a few moments.just compare it to the original. if all is ok,proceed with the burn

andy