Comment 5 for bug 543891

Ok, thanks for the explanation about Mint's "custom partitioning" option.

I think I didn't explain my question very well. I understand partitioning and PC architecture, and I think there is a problem with the way the partitioning was created by Mint's partitioning tool. The extended partition is wrong because it looks like this:

1. NTFS partition
2. NTFS partition
3. Extended partition
3.1 Empty partition - this partition should not exist
3.2 Linux
3.3 Linux swap

instead of looking like this:

1. NTFS partition
2. NTFS partition
3. Extended partition
3.1 Linux
3.2 Linux swap

Notice the empty partition inside the extended partition. It's not necessary. What is the Mint-recommended way of removing it? I can of course remove it with standard low-level tools, but I'd like to know what is the recommended way of removing it in Mint. Thanks.