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On 18/10/13 13:56, Philip Hudson wrote:
Thanks. Just one more question and that is about swap space. Although it is not used so much nowadays when most people have plenty of RAM, is one area of swap all that is required? That is, if I have two or more distros installed using dual boot, is there any need for each one to have some swap?If you do use gparted, what you do is delete however many partitions you want to delete (sounds like just one), all of which are then added to the unused pool. You then have to create one or more new replacement partitions from that pool before you can reuse the disk space previously allocated -- this is the step missing from your conjectured workflow. To answer your question: It *does* become free space but it is *not* ready to use. Not til you create a new partition using the freed space. GParted makes it about as easy as it could be.
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