From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Daniel47@teranews.com wrote:   
   > I want to install Mandriva 2011 and Mageina 2.   
   >   
   > Current break up of sda:   
   [some Windows partitions]   
   > sda5    4GB        Linux Swap   
   > sda6    20GB    Ext3    /     Mandriva 2009.0    (15.5GB free)   
   > sda7    18GB    Ext3    /alt  Mandriva 2010.0    (13.6GB free)   
   > sda8    85GB    Ext3    /Home            (57.2GB free)   
   [...]   
   > As the two installed OS's are each only using about 5GB of their mounts,   
   > can I just divide sda 6 in two and sda 7 in two, giving me sda's 9 and   
   > 10 (or whatever) on which to install my two newish OS's and have them   
   > all make use of the single /Home??   
      
   My suggestion (although the others responding are probably more   
   knowledgeable than I am):   
      
   Download (free) "System Rescue CD" from www.sysresccd.org and burn it to   
   a CD-R or CD-RW (or a USB drive if you can boot from that), then boot   
   from it and use 'gparted' to resize sda8 to something smaller, to leave   
   at least 50 GB unallocated.  Continue with gparted to create two new   
   extended (logical) partitions (25 GB each) in the now unallocated area,   
   which will probably get called sda9 and sda10.  Use the two new   
   partitions for the two new distros.   
      
   > Side question    What has likely happened to sda4?   
      
   It's the "container" holding all your logical partitions (sda5 and higher).   
      
   Adam   
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