On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:56:59AM -0700, Matt Graham wrote:

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> 
> So:  If you're paranoid, make backups of all the partitions.  Then delete sda3
> and sda4 and create a new sda3 which covers everything from the end of sda2 to
> the end of the disk.  Tell your distro's install CD to use sda3 as / .  And
> think about using something other than Ubuntu; Unity is a pain.

I agree that Unity is a pile of poo but that's no reason to switch
distros if he's otherwise happy with Ubuntu. He can always install 
another DE, mate, lxde, xfce, etc etc etc.

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