[Sheflug] My partitioning thinko

[nospam [at] cliffestones.demon.co.uk]

Greetings,

About a year ago when I bought this box I dreamt up a plan as to how to
partition the HD. I reckoned swap /boot /dos and / I also left 5 gig at
the end of the drive thinking I might want to have a play with Solaris
or something. All along I was completely unaware that you can only have
4 primary IDE partitions. Consequently I have 5 gig I cannot touch in
anyway. the partition order is 
hda1 /dos  Fat32
hda2 /boot ext2
hda3 /     ext2 
hda4 swap  swap 

Is it possible for me to delete swap extend hda3 by the 5 gig and put
swap back without data loss and without buying some partition software?

any idea how I would go about it?

thanks

Simon.
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Simon Brown Simon at cliffestones.demon.co.uk
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