bottleman
December 13th, 2010, 09:16 PM
Hi,
I have a thinkpad that came with Windows XP, which I have been dual-booting into Kubuntu for several years. Currently I have Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have some free space on my hard drive and would like to make a new FAT32 partition. However, Gparted informs me that I cannot add a new partition, since I already have the maximum of 4.
Looking at the partition list in Gparted (screenshot attached), I see an unmounted and very small ext3 partition called "kinstall". I do not remember creating this partition; I presume it might have been created during the original Kubuntu installation process.
Is this partition doing anything? It is unmounted and my computer is running fine, so is it correct to assume it is unnecessary?
Can I erase this partition without harming the data and installations on the other partitions? (I do need to keep working and can't afford to spend days reinstalling everything.)
Thank you!
I have a thinkpad that came with Windows XP, which I have been dual-booting into Kubuntu for several years. Currently I have Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have some free space on my hard drive and would like to make a new FAT32 partition. However, Gparted informs me that I cannot add a new partition, since I already have the maximum of 4.
Looking at the partition list in Gparted (screenshot attached), I see an unmounted and very small ext3 partition called "kinstall". I do not remember creating this partition; I presume it might have been created during the original Kubuntu installation process.
Is this partition doing anything? It is unmounted and my computer is running fine, so is it correct to assume it is unnecessary?
Can I erase this partition without harming the data and installations on the other partitions? (I do need to keep working and can't afford to spend days reinstalling everything.)
Thank you!