<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> <IMG height=19 alt="" src="http://gfx2.hotmail.com/mail/w3/ltr/emoticons/smile_shades.gif" width=19>Nils in X, I cant remember but I think on the 29gb /home I had used about 8gb and on the 7gb /root used 7gb it didnt even complete any of the two steps, was still runing resize 29gb down to 20gb and " After assuring that the /swap partition is unmounted" I didnt understand that meant swapoff??????? sorry. 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????? ray 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?????? > From: kassube@gmx.net > To: kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: re re-partition Kubuntu 3-partitions on 40gb > Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:05:02 +0100 > > Ray Burke wrote: > > I did that and had a problem, as it said was performing 1 of the 2 > > tasks 1/ reducing the 29gb sdbe to 20gb and after 3 hours came back > > with error 2/ enlarging the 8bg sdbe to 19gg, but did not even start > > cause of above error. > > Oh, that's not good to read. I hope there was nothing lost. Now the > question is what the error was. Did you have enough free space, i.e. was > there less than 20GB of data on the (originally) 29GB partition? Can you > access the partition from the LiveCD? Maybe you need to reboot (with the > LiveCD) to read the modified partition table. I'm not sure it does that > automatically if there was an error. > > I could imagine that Ubuntu tried to automatically mount the partitions of > the disk after resizing the first one and gparted refused to continue > while the partition for the next operation was mounted. If that is the > case, you could just resize the second partition after unmounting it. > > > am I supposed to in thew terminal type sudo swapoff -a or thru drop > > down menu of the 40gb disc, click swapoff, > > Either way. Gparted wouldn't let you modify the space of the partition if > it is in use as swap space. > > > and when finished do I turn > > the swapon??????? > > When finished you can turn swap on again, but it isn't necessary if you > don't want to use the LiveCD any longer. > > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition?action print,and does > > not say anythink about swapoff?????? > > Well, on one of the pages it says this: > > | After assuring that the /swap partition is unmounted, > > Actually it doesn't tell you _how_ to unmount the swap partition but you > have to do it. > > > Nils > > -- > kubuntu-users mailing list > kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users <hr />Download free emoticons today! <a href='http://livelife.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=669758 ' target='_new'>Holiday cheer from Messenger.</a></body> </html>