Removing Windows partition after opensuse 10.2 installation

[silentlion]

Hi,

I installed openSuse 10.2 as dual boot with windows. Now, I'm ready to completely switch to opensuse and get rid of my Windows partition, and use that space for openSuse.

I used Yast2's partitioner to delete my Windows partition and now the table looks like this:

/dev/sda......149.0 GB......Samsung-HD.......none.............0.......19451
/dev/sda1......39.1 MB......Dell Utility..........none.............0.......4
/dev/sda3......3.2 GB........Dell Restore........none.......19032......19451
/dev/sda4......69.0 GB......Extended............none.......10018...... 19031
/dev/sda5.......1.7 GB.......Linux swap........ swap......10018......19031
/dev/sda6......20.0 GB......Linux native....... /............10240......12850
/dev/sda7......47.3 GB......Linux native....... /home.....12851......19031

so you can see that Windows used to be on /dev/sda2 and it started at Cylinder 5 and ended at cylinder 10017.
Now, I'd like to extend my linux native partions with that unused space. Can someone walk me through step by step how to do that, for example how would I resize Linux swap partition to be 5 GB? It seems like I'll have to play with start/end cylinders for each partition to make em right, otherwise the partitioner tool doesn't know how to utilize that empty space to resize other partitions. I thought I'd check here first, any help is very appreciated

Thanks,

Ed

[devils casper]

Hi silentlion,

there is no need to increase SWAP space. if you have 1GB or more RAM, SuSe wont use SWAP at all unless you are doing heavy database transaction and running servers.
its easy to resize partitions using Yast Partition Manager or GParted LiveCD.

[jpalfree]

You might consider using a nice little program called: gparted

It has a nice gui and makes moving partitions around quite easy. I'm not sure about what filesystems are able to be resized, but make sure you know everything will be ok before resizing (i probably don't have to tell you that).

Perhaps someone else can clarify what filesystems (reiserfs,ext3,...) are ok to resize.

And... 5GB for swap!? Are you sure you need that much? The general rule of thumb is 2x(RAM)... but with newer computers swap is almost unneeded. I'm running an amd64 with 512Mb ram and i feel 1Gb of swap is more than enough.