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[Tom <question77956@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #77956 on Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Ok, have you got any data saved in the 2 Ubuntu's we can see on there?
I prefer the way it is setup on sdb rather than sda but it can help to
have your linux-swap on a different physical drive from the main linux
install for better performance.

Linux-swap should be about 2x as large as your ram.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
An easy way to find out your ram size is to type

free -m

into a command line.  It should show your ram size first and then will
show the size of your linux-swap afterwards.  Please copy&paste the
result into here.

I think it would probably be best to use a LiveCd session of Ubuntu, go
up to the top taskbar and click on

System - Administration - Partition Editor

then right click on sda7, choose "Swap Off" and then righ click on sda7
again and choose "Delete".  Then on sda6 right-click and do "Umount" and
then delete this one too (assuming you know you've not got any data on
there that you want to save somewhere safely first).  This should leave
you with a grey space "unallocated".  Right click on that and create a
new partition and make it's "file-system" linux-swap.  Click on Apply
and then it should complete all that.

If you then have problems booting in please pop back into here by using
one of the LiveCd and i can show you how to recover the grub you have
installed on sdb2.

Note that i'm not removing both the linux-swap partitions in one go.
It's better to keep one for use with the LiveCd - we can get rid of sdb5
and sdb3 and then resize sdb2 to be much larger later.

Oh, please can you let us know all the text&numbers in the bottom pane
of gparted ie all the stuff under the picture of your drive's partitions
in the partition editor.

Thanks, good luck and regards from 
Tom :)

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