How to merge, delete partitions with gparted?

[puppyus]

Hi all!
I want to merge two empty partitions or either delete one I can't find the option..
Also it looks there's no way to delete the linux-swap partition ..
I 'm using gparted.

[Béèm]

I was going to advice you to use gparted to do that job.
Can you explain, why in your opinion it didn't work?

[mainiac]

I am having the same problem, I think. When I open Gparted, the resize option is disabled on the swap partition. It's also disabled on the second partition I created with the intention of deleting the first. There is the "swapoff" option, however when I click that, I get the error message:

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Could not deactivate swap
swapoff: invalid option -- v
BusyBox v1.8.2 (2007-11-30 09:20:42 GMT-8) multi-call binary

Usage: swapoff [-a] [DEVICE]

Stop swapping virtual memory pages on DEVICE

Options:
	-a	Stop swapping on all swap devices

[rjbrewer]

If a partition is mounted ( has a lock on it) it can't be deleted or
changed.

I use a gparted cd to remove swap partitions; it has more
capability than Puppies' gparted.

[maggotspawn]

Be careful with Gparted. I tried to delete my swap partition with it and ended up not be able to boot at all. This particular PC also didn't want to boot from any Puppy CD I had. Ended up reinstalling everything.

[Bruce B]

Hi all!
I want to merge two empty partitions or either delete one can't find the option..

If they are truly adjacent partitions, if you deleted them,
you would have 'free space', from the free space you could
make one partition.

I would use gparted if I have to resize a partition, other
wise for an operation like this I use cfdisk from the
command line.

After making the kind of partition you want, then the kind
of filesystem (format) you want. A two step procedure.

Also it looks there's no way to delete the linux-swap partition ..

It can be deleted for sure. Probably you have to deactivate
it first.

swapoff <device>

Sorry guys for any redundancy in my posting, got no
excuse for doing it either.