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[SOLVED] Multiple swap partitions safe to delete?

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hello. I've already read Ubuntu's SwapFAQ here but it doesn't say anything about deleting swap partitions, so just to be clear, and to avoid any possible headaches, I have to ask: Is it safe to delete all but one of these swap partitions and extend my main ext4 partition? Screenshot illustrating the issue: The NTFS partition is just a shared media partition NOT a windows system partition. I don't know how I ended up with so many swap. (Hardware)

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Submitted by linuxfan on 04/08/2012 – Made popular on 04/08/2012

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I want to know is there any possible (and simple) way to delete my Windows partitions and extend my Ubuntu partitions.

I have 1 HDD 700 GB:

sda1 primary 100MB NTFS (Windows boot partition) sda2 primary 100GB NTFS (Windows 7 OS) sda3 primary 500GB NTFS (Windows data files) sda4 extended partition 98GB: sda6 ext4 94GB (Ubuntu 12.04) sda5 swap 4GB

My actual boot partition is sda1

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What I thought I should do is: 1. Extend the "extended" file system by 75.00 GiB. After doing that, the unallocated file system will be above the linux-swap. 2.

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I want to extend my "ext4" partition with an unallocated partition. Here's how my partitions look:

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