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claven123
April 23rd, 2011, 04:49 AM
I have a Dell Mininetbook. I repartitioned and shrunk the windows partition and then installed ubuntu 10.10 to this. I also made a linux swap file.

I then installed ubuntu to this ext4 partition. Well, it doesn't really run that well and is quite slow and not what I was looking for. I have another netbook with the ubuntu netbook installed and it runs fine.

I would like to uninstall the 10.10 and then install the netbook edition. Do I use gparted to delete the ext4 partition and then keep the swap file? Or do I need to delete that and remake it. Or, will the new install of the netbook ubuntu use that swap file?

Thanks,

Dennis

mörgæs
April 23rd, 2011, 09:50 AM
If you want to reinstall, best is to remove all partitions related to the present Ubuntu installation, but I would recommend that you find the reason before changing anything.

First of all, what does the top command tell you?