creating extended partition

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Published on 2012-10-26T15:53:36Z Indexed on 2012/11/04 23:18 UTC
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this is my current hard disk status(Running linux Mint LIVE CD) HARD DISK STATUS

i have-

  1. Ubuntu 12.04 on 206 GB partition at dev/sda1.
  2. dev/sda2 system reserved.
  3. Windows 7 on 90GB partition at dev/sda3
  4. and linux swap in extended partition.

what i want to do- I want to install Linux mint KDE on my system for that i want to create a new partition of 30GB(by shrinking the free space available at dev/sda1), i can't create that because i can create only 4 Primary partitions which are already there. so do i have to delete the Swap partition? and if i did how to force Mint KDE and Ubuntu 12.04 to use/share same swap space in new logical partition?

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