- Work out what swap partition linux actually uses so I don't delete the
one it needs
There's usually an entry in /etc/fstab for each one. You can
find them with
grep swap /etc/fstab
alternatively, you might try
swapon -s
to print the current swap areas.
If you get more than one result, you likely have more than one in
use which Linux certainly allows. You can edit your fstab to
point at whichever one(s) you want to keep. You don't even
*have* to reboot as long as everything you're running fits in
memory without swapping. You should be able to use (from my
reading of "man swapon")
swapoff -a
edit /etc/fstab
swapon -a
If you don't have enough memory, you might be able to create a
swap-*file* using "dd", include that in your swap-pool, then
disable your swaps on the partitions in question, edit your
fstab, start swapping on your desired partition(s), and then
disable swapping from the file.
- Delete the unneeded swap partitions
using fdisk or cfdisk you can nuke these
- Resize my linux partition to get the most space possible?
I'm less experienced with this one. I'll let other experts speak
to that one.
Also there is a 10 gb extended space or something partition on my disk. It
is 10 gb, so how big should this be? Is it required and what is it for?
Without a dump of your partition table, it's hard to tell what
you're seeing. My best guess from what you're describing is that
you have some logical partitions (either active or available).
Some terminology helps: physical partitions, logical partitions,
and extended partitions. Most hard-drives only allow for 4
physical partitions (this is changing with the advent of recent
HD technology, but very slowly). To get around this limitation,
one or more of those 4 physical partitions can be designated as
an "extended" partition, which can hold more logical partitions.
So if you wanted to have more than 4 partitions, you'd have to
designate at least one extended partition, and then put your
logical partitions inside that.
With that terminology in mind, it might help make more sense of
what you're seeing in your output, or might help you pose the
question in such a way that folks can be more helpful.
I thought a linux install only needed a swap partition and a linux
partition for the actual install and files. (and if people then choose to
have /home on another partition then that is different, but I just said
all files in one partition.)
Linux can be installed in merely a single partition (swap is
somewhat optional, though may take away the ability for the
machine to hibernate), but as you note, more are possible (on my
production machines, I like to have partitions for / /var /tmp
/home /usr and one for swap so there is protection from them
filling up and preventing other bits from functioning. On my
home machine(s), I usually just stick to three partitions: /
/home and swap.
Hope this gives you some ideas and help,
-tim
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