GuilhermeBrant
December 23rd, 2012, 01:23 PM
Hi all,
I have already had too much trouble with bootloader while repartitioning my HD, so I decided to ask here first before messing it up again. Here is how my system partitions look today :
http://s14.postimage.org/jpya1xjs1/my_partitions.png
Both the partitions runs Ubuntu.
It used to be one extended partition containing both the Ubuntu partitions and a Swap one. Yesterday, I had to reinstall ubuntu on one of them and I don't know why, it created another primary partition to install it, so now I have two primary partitions instead of an extended one containing both. Also, I lost my swap partition.
Questions :
1) Is there any advantage on changing the system's partitions so that both occupy the same extended partition? (such as sharing the same SWAP partition, or will they share it even at distinct primary partitions?)
2) As long as the partition containing GRUB (which I guess is always the one having the flag 'boot'?) mantain its beggining, can I resize the partitions without messing up with bootloader? For example, in the case of the picture, can I shrink 'sda1' and expand 'sda6' using that space, without messing up anything?
3) If I had the first primary partition containing /boot (that is, selecting /boot as the mount point in GParted for that partition), without installing any O.S on it, and the second primary partition being an extended one containning all my linux logical partitions, would I ever have to care about not messing bootloader again, when resizing/deleting/formatting my linux partitions?
Thanks in advance,
Luiz.
I have already had too much trouble with bootloader while repartitioning my HD, so I decided to ask here first before messing it up again. Here is how my system partitions look today :
http://s14.postimage.org/jpya1xjs1/my_partitions.png
Both the partitions runs Ubuntu.
It used to be one extended partition containing both the Ubuntu partitions and a Swap one. Yesterday, I had to reinstall ubuntu on one of them and I don't know why, it created another primary partition to install it, so now I have two primary partitions instead of an extended one containing both. Also, I lost my swap partition.
Questions :
1) Is there any advantage on changing the system's partitions so that both occupy the same extended partition? (such as sharing the same SWAP partition, or will they share it even at distinct primary partitions?)
2) As long as the partition containing GRUB (which I guess is always the one having the flag 'boot'?) mantain its beggining, can I resize the partitions without messing up with bootloader? For example, in the case of the picture, can I shrink 'sda1' and expand 'sda6' using that space, without messing up anything?
3) If I had the first primary partition containing /boot (that is, selecting /boot as the mount point in GParted for that partition), without installing any O.S on it, and the second primary partition being an extended one containning all my linux logical partitions, would I ever have to care about not messing bootloader again, when resizing/deleting/formatting my linux partitions?
Thanks in advance,
Luiz.