Here is what you want to do:

enter cfdisk

Highlight the partition you want to mess with.


cfdisk 2.12h

Disk Drive: /dev/hda
Size: 81964302336 bytes, 81.9 GB
Heads: 16 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 158816

Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hda1 Primary Compaq diagnostics 4613.90
hda2 Boot Primary NTFS [] 47185.63
hda5 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 560.49
hda6 Logical Linux ext3 20971.05
hda4 Primary Linux ext3 8633.26





[Bootable] [ Delete ] [ Help ] [Maximize] [ Print ] [ Quit ]
[ Type ] [ Units ] [ Write ]

Toggle bootable flag of the current partition

Select delete.

Pri/Log Free Space 8633.26

Then select new [ New ] and these choices will come up:

[Primary] [Logical] [Cancel ]

Select what you wnat the partition to be.

Select the size you want it to be:

Size (in MB): 8633.25

Now I have the same thing I did before just to help walk you through the steps.

Next select the correct type of partition that you want it to be: [ Type ]

01 FAT12 4E QNX4.x 2nd part A7 NeXTSTEP
02 XENIX root 4F QNX4.x 3rd part A8 Darwin UFS
03 XENIX usr 50 OnTrack DM A9 NetBSD
04 FAT16 <32M 51 OnTrack DM6 Aux1 AB Darwin boot
05 Extended 52 CP/M B7 BSDI fs
06 FAT16 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3 B8 BSDI swap
07 HPFS/NTFS 54 OnTrackDM6 BB Boot Wizard hidden
08 AIX 55 EZ-Drive BE Solaris boot
09 AIX bootable 56 Golden Bow C1 DRDOS/sec (FAT-12)
0A OS/2 Boot Manager 5C Priam Edisk C4 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16 <
0B W95 FAT32 61 SpeedStor C6 DRDOS/sec (FAT-16)
0C W95 FAT32 (LBA) 63 GNU HURD or SysV C7 Syrinx
0E W95 FAT16 (LBA) 64 Novell Netware 286 DA Non-FS data
0F W95 Ext'd (LBA) 65 Novell Netware 386 DB CP/M / CTOS / ...
10 OPUS 70 DiskSecure Multi-Boo DE Dell Utility
11 Hidden FAT12 75 PC/IX DF BootIt




Press a key to continue

12 Compaq diagnostics 80 Old Minix E1 DOS access
14 Hidden FAT16 <32M 81 Minix / old Linux E3 DOS R/O
16 Hidden FAT16 82 Linux swap / Solaris E4 SpeedStor
17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS 83 Linux EB BeOS fs
18 AST SmartSleep 84 OS/2 hidden C: drive EE EFI GPT
1B Hidden W95 FAT32 85 Linux extended EF EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
1C Hidden W95 FAT32 (LB 86 NTFS volume set F0 Linux/PA-RISC boot
1E Hidden W95 FAT16 (LB 87 NTFS volume set F1 SpeedStor
24 NEC DOS 8E Linux LVM F4 SpeedStor
39 Plan 9 93 Amoeba F2 DOS secondary
3C PartitionMagic recov 94 Amoeba BBT FD Linux raid autodetec
40 Venix 80286 9F BSD/OS FE LANstep
41 PPC PReP Boot A0 IBM Thinkpad hiberna FF BBT
42 SFS A5 FreeBSD
4D QNX4.x A6 OpenBSD


Enter filesystem type: 82


It defaults to 82 which is a Linux swap. Change to 83 or whatever you want it

Next, select write: [ Write ]

Enter and confirm with yes.

There you have a new linux partition to work with.

Qt parted or the installer can take care of formatting the partition with ext3 or reiserfs.

Do this for the swap partition also and just select the correct size and type(82).
Hope this helps you.