partitioning question

[commonplace]

Same Gparted if you are going the latest version. Probably won't make any difference and no different options.

Yep, just finished discovering that. *sigh* I can't figure out why it's not letting me do what I want. Very frustating. Appreciate everyone's help. Hopefully someone figures it out.

/Kevin

[u.b.u.n.t.u]

Can you try to reinstall Ubuntu and during the installation set the parameters of the partition?

That may not be as eloquent as combining two partitions but it would at least address the problem.

The other possibility is formatting the partition in question with ext4 and seeing if that resolves the merging.

[commonplace]

Can you try to reinstall Ubuntu and during the installation set the parameters of the partition?

That may not be as eloquent as combining two partitions but it would at least address the problem.

The other possibility is formatting the partition in question with ext4 and seeing if that resolves the merging.

I tried your latter suggestion of formatting the partition as ext4, but that didn't help.

In the end, I'm probably just going to do nothing. When the next version of Ubuntu comes out (hey, it's only 4.5 months away), I'll just wipe the Linux partitions out and redo 'em then. Thank you all for your help!

/Kevin

[u.b.u.n.t.u]

Alpha 1 of Lucid Lynx is scheduled for 10 December. That may be worth taking a look at out of interest.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule

Ubuntu 9.10 is being updated regularly so the wait may not be that long.

[NorthDakota91]

I had the same problem until..now ^^. I found why GParted from the Ubuntu LiveCD couldn't resize the ext4 partition. This happened because the live CD used the swap partition on hard drive. So all you have to do is just right click on the swap partition and "swapoff". After that you'll be able to resize, move, etc..

Hope this helped!