Help required in creating two extra partitions

[Sleepy]

I want to make room for a couple more distros,Zenmini being one of them.The only way I can gain space is by possibly shrinking an existing partition which contains Gnome 2009 and creating two new ones.Gnome currently resides on  /dev/sda1 partition.
Looking at the information supplied would anyone envisage a problem with this?

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd72bd72

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7127    57247596   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            7128        7663     4305420   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            7664        9729    16595145    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7664        7919     2056288+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7920        9729    14538793+  83  Linux

[Old-Polack]

I want to make room for a couple more distros,Zenmini being one of them.The only way I can gain space is by possibly shrinking an existing partition which contains Gnome 2009 and creating two new ones.Gnome currently resides on  /dev/sda1 partition.
Looking at the information supplied would anyone envisage a problem with this?

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd72bd72

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7127    57247596   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            7128        7663     4305420   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            7664        9729    16595145    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7664        7919     2056288+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7920        9729    14538793+  83  Linux

The main problem with your plan is that you already have three primary partitions and you can only have four. The best you can do, without a total rebuild of your hard drive's partition structure, is create that one partition.

[Sleepy]

I want to make room for a couple more distros,Zenmini being one of them.The only way I can gain space is by possibly shrinking an existing partition which contains Gnome 2009 and creating two new ones.Gnome currently resides on  /dev/sda1 partition.
Looking at the information supplied would anyone envisage a problem with this?

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xbd72bd72

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        7127    57247596   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            7128        7663     4305420   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            7664        9729    16595145    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            7664        7919     2056288+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6            7920        9729    14538793+  83  Linux

The main problem with your plan is that you already have three primary partitions and you can only have four. The best you can do, without a total rebuild of your hard drive's partition structure, is create that one partition.

Thanks for taking a look at that old-polack.In which case I'll have to be content with just one extra  

[kjpetrie]

What lives in sda6?

Could that be backed up and shrunk to allow new logical partitions to be created there?

[Sleepy]

What lives in sda6?

Could that be backed up and shrunk to allow new logical partitions to be created there?

Thats a good point!LXDE 2009 lives in sda6 but it contains only 4.8GB free space which I doubt would be enough for Zenmini and ongoing updates.

[kjpetrie]

It might be easier to buy a second HDD. They're cheap enough from online suppliers.