Resizing partitions with the Breezy Installer?

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Sat, 2005-08-10 at 16:38 +0200, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> For final testing I'd like to install 5.10RC in addition to Hoary. Since 
> the free space of about 1 Gig is too small for a decent Breezy 
> installation, I'd like to make the Hoary partition smaller. I heard that 
> this can be done with the Breezy installer. But I cannot find how, I 
> searched all menus in the disk partitioner and the available help. Or is 
> the resize capability just a hoax?

I did it a couple of months ago on a ext3 partition to install Breezy
besides Hoary, so it should be available for your hoary partition
(ext3?).   I can assure you that that the installer can resize existing
partition so it is not a hoax.

>From what I remember, there is an option in the installer during the
partitions setup to resize an existing partition and use the
newly-created free space for your new install. 


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