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[Tom <question74437@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #74437 on grub in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub/+question/74437

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, so on the LiveCd session you use these days please go up to the top
taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Partition Editor

Then right-click on sda6 (which should be at the end of the drive) and
delete it.  Also delete sda5 and sda2.  It might be a little more tricky
trying to catch hold of sda2 to delete it because it's only an empty box
so you have to click on it's coloured border or use the pane that's the
bottom half of GPartEd's window.  Anyway, once everything except sda1 is
deleted then click on the "Apply" button.

After that right-click on sda1 to 'resize' it.  Really we need to move
this to the right so that there's a 612Mb space in front of it.  This
time it will take ages, plenty of time to get a cuppa tea or have lunch
or something.

When that's done right click in the grey space at the front of the drive
and create a new partition of only 100Mb, make this a Primary, ext3
partition.  After it make another partition filling the space between
sda1 and the partition you've just made.  It should be about 512Mb, make
this one a Primary, linux-swap partition.  This time when you click on
"Apply" it should be relatively quick.  When it's done right-click on
the linux swap and choose "SwapOn".

At this point it would be good to let us know what the bottom pane of
gparted is telling you.  I'm particularly interested in how much space
there is in the grey area at the end of the drive but i'm also
interested in how much unused space there is in sda1.  Note that sda1 is
probably in the middle of the drive by now with sda2 and sda3 in front
of it - this is quite normal and nothing to worry about.  Partitions are
labelled chronologically, in the order they were created rather than
where they happen to be on the drive.

Ok!  Good luck with all this!
Regards from
Tom :)

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