Resizing

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I find one thing strange below:
    The start and end of /dev/sda5 is 973217763 - 976768064,
	* but *
	the start and end of /dev/sda6 is 892379136 - 969025535.

Why the end of /dev/sda5 is larger than the start of /dev/sda6?
Shouldn't they rank from small to big?

On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 07:06:53PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
>>
>Thank you for your response.
>I tried again.
>Here is the read out from sudo -l
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>/dev/sda1   *          63   892377087   446188512+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>/dev/sda2       892379134   976768064    42194465+   5  Extended
>/dev/sda5       973217763   976768064     1775151   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>/dev/sda6       892379136   969025535    38323200   83  Linux
>/dev/sda7       969027584   973215743     2094080   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
>I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda2. Which seems to be a container
>for all the linux partitions. It wouldn't give me the option to
>re-size it. I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda6 which is EXT4
>format.