qtparted problems

[Matthew Flaschen]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> I have a large drive (100 GB SATA drive) that I am dual booting Windows and 
> Kubuntu w/.  I would like to use some of the drive as a paritition that I 
> could access both from Windows and Kubuntu.  So I started up QTParted and 
> used my password for sudo access and I can't create the partition.
> 
> Attached is a screen shot and when I click on the free space the only option 
> is properties.

You'll want to go with FAT32 for the shared partition.  I think the
problem is that you already technically have 4 primary partitions.  I'm
not sure the best way to solve this.  (You should have backups).  The
easiest is probably to put the swap partition in an extended partition
(I don't know the performance ramifications of this).  From the LiveCD:

1. Run the command:

swapoff /dev/sda4

2. Delete the swap partition.

3. Create an extended partition.

4. Create the swap partition inside (specify 2 GB); I believe you
right-click on the extended partition for this.

5. Create the FAT32 partition inside as well.  Use the remaining space.

Tell us if that works.

Matt Flaschen