[Tfug] gparted problem

[Bexley Hall]

Hi Earl,

> I have a hard drive that I used for testing some distributions.  As some
> distros have some very strong ideas about partitioning the final
> partitioning looks like this:
> 
> | sda1   |  sda5         | sda2            |  sda3   |
> | boot   |  Ubuntu 9.10  | Ubuntu 8.02     |  Swap   |

Is this *physically* how the partitions are laid out?
I.e., are you sure that the first sector of sda2 is
"physically" adjacent to the last sector in sda5

> Of course, sda5 is in sda4.
> 
> I cleared sda2 which is now unallocated.  I tried to
> expand sda5 into the
> space formerally occupied by sda2.  gparted is unable
> to do this.  Does
> anyone know if this is because sda5 is a logical partition
> and sda2 was a primary partition?
> 
> Earl
> 
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