[ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

[Colin Law]

On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley <rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope <alan at popey.com> wrote:
>> At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
>> merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
>> disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly
>> available space made by deleting an unused partition. Cheers, Al.
> Ah, right. For some reason I thought you were talking about reinstalling
> everything from scratch, from the Live CD. But if I have understood
> correctly, I can achieve my purposes without ever having to unmount
> sda1, which is the boot volume. I can demount, delete, recreate and
> remount all the other partitions without having any effect on sda1.

By booting from the live CD and running gparted from there, the
partitions are not mounted in the first place, so there is no need to
unmount them.  There is no need to delete and re-create the
partitions, just move and resize them.

Colin