swap ?

[bigvoo]

I got the puppy comp up and running fine, by using gparted to wipe dev/sda1. My question is: I was not able to delete/change the linux swap partition or the extended partition, so i just left those alone. can there be 2 extended partitions on one hd, or did this installation just use the existing one ? how do you know if a swap partition is in use ? thanks.

[Jonathan183]

You can only have a single extended partition on a hard drive. Swap is used while the system is live - and can be shared between several distros unless you want to use suspend to disk. Check contents of /etc/fstab on each distro to see if swap partition is used

cat /etc/fstab

and look for an entry something like ...

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

... you should be able to modify these unless you either have swap in use at the time or a logical partition within the extended partition mounted at the time. Check also output of

free

[i92guboj]

You can only have a single extended partition on a hard drive.

Not only that, but there wouldn't be any sense in having more than one since you can create as many logical drives inside it as you want. Having two extended partitions would make absolutely no difference.