re re-partition Kubuntu 3-partitions on 40gb

[Nils Kassube]

Ray Burke wrote:
> I cant remember but I think on the 29gb /home I had used about 8gb
> and on the 7gb /root used 7gb

OK, so it isn't a space problem.

> it didnt even complete any of the two steps, was still runing
> resize 29gb down to 20gband 

And it is not a problem of automounting partitions.

> " After assuring that the /swap partition 
> is unmounted" I didnt understand that meant swapoff???????
> sorry.

Right, the text isn't perfect because a swap partition isn't mounted.

> I also reboot to see what the disc's were saying but could not even
> boot into the new partition k as error monunting as saying to fsck the
> disk?????

I'm not sure I understand - did it partially boot but want you to manually 
fsck the root partition?

> PS I have clonned the corrupt new k from my old k(lucky I done a copy)
> but this time using paragon drive copy 8 while in my xp pro as not even
> sure when I conned a backup  thru ghost3 it worked??????

Now that you have restored from the backup you could try the same 
operation again. It would be interesting to save the error details if 
there is again the same error. OTOH, I suppose you don't want to wait 
another 3 hours.


Nils