when to resize partitions

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

> Just a little more background info.  The fat 16/32 partitions are for
> the Dell recovery and diagnostic programmes that I want to preserve.  I
> do not need to retain any data from the home partition in Mandriva.
>
>
> Q1) How can I tell which partition was the home partition?


If you do not want "any data from the home partition in Mandriva"
what's the use?

(Booting Ubuntu from the Live CD you can mount the old partitions and
check their contents.)


> Q2) Can I assume that if I chose the manual option I will be able to
> combine all the non windows partitions and then at a different stage
> allocate it to kubuntu and it will sort out the swop, bootable partition
> etc.  I am hoping I will not be asked which partitions are for which
> purpose as I will not know.

You are going to remove all Linux unwanted partitions (probably
contiguous) and Ubuntu will (manually or guided) create the needed
ones in the free space.

You will need at least:
one root partition (say 10Gb) /
one swap partition (say 2 to 4 Gb) /swap
one home partition /home (at least 10 Gb, but can occupy the rest of
the available space)

L.