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    Triple Boot, Swap Area

    Currently have Windows 8.1 Pro and Ubuntu already running on my system. Ubuntu has swap area of around 4 gigs. I am manually doing the partitioning for the new distro (kali 2.0) which I'm installing.

    I have put it as follows:
    8GB Swap
    25 GB Root
    25 GB Home

    Now as I press continue to write the changes to disk, it says the following

    The following partitions are going to be formatted:
    partition #5 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swap
    partition #7 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swap
    partition #8 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as ext4
    partition #9 of SCSI1 (0,0,0) (sda) as ext4

    Why does it need to format partition #5? I haven't made any changes to it, and also IT IS UBUNTU'S SWAP AREA.

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    If you have multiple Linux system on one hdd you just need only ONE swap partition. Any Linux OS will use it.

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