Hi all, I'm having a strange issue after formatting my hard drive, or rather, I don't even know whether this is an issue, I'm somewhat confused.
So, I have erased a Windows 7 (32 bit) partition on my hard drive with Gparted, then installed a fresh Windows 7 (64 bit) on the free space. Naturally, it has erased GRUB and I booted from a Live CD in order to restore it, but then I saw in Gparted that my Ubuntu partition (which I didn't format at all) turned into "unallocated space". Luckily, I could restore it using testdisk and I've successfully reinstalled GRUB, too, so that's not the issue. However, after restoring my Ubuntu partition and opening Gparted again, I found that there was a weird unallocated 1 Mib blob between the Windows and the Ubuntu partition (screenshot in the link below). Funnily, I remember that it was allocated and called /sda5/ before I used testdisk on my Ubuntu partition, but now it is unallocated.
My assumption is that it was sort of header which linked my Ubuntu partition with the Linux Swap partition, otherwise I can't make much sense of it. Please, if someone could have a look at the screenshot below and give some useful advice, I would be very thankful.
Screenshot:
http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150409/fx6sczni.png
Edit: Otherwise, if this is just some random blob I don't need to care about, is there a way to test whether my Swap is "active"? That's the only thing I'm afraid about, I don't know how the main partition connects to the Swap.
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