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Tom posted a new comment:
In gparted sda6 is the really large partition right?  I think the order
on the disk is

sda1, sda2, sda3, sda4, sda6, sda7, sda5

so it's not really as messed up as one might initially think :)  The
partitions are always numbered chronologically rather than by position
so you can imagine that some people have very strange numbering :) Yours
is fine :)

Also sda4 is like a bucket containing all of sda5 to sda7.  Hard-drives
can only have 4 Primary partitions (Thanks to microsquish.  Other types
do exist but Windows can't cope with them).  However, it was realised
that more could be useful so a special type of partition was made &
called "Extended Partition" and this can contain quite a few other
partitions but they have to be "Logical Partitions" rather than
"Primary" ones.  On most top-end hardware there's no discernible
performance difference but with some machines it's better to keep OS and
swap spaces in Primary Partitions for a slight boost in performance.

Ok, so i am just 'waiting' to hear if sda6 is really large or very tiny
and also to hear the results of

free -m

Thanks and regards from
Tom :)

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