Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[john levin]

Charles Malespin wrote:
> Hi all, I have a 160 G hard drive that I split in two for XP and Ubuntu.
> Well after some time, I am ready to get rid of almost all of windows.
> Is there an easy way to resize my Windows partition without screwing up
> windows and losing info?  I am still a noob, so make the dirs as simple
> as possible please....  Here is  my df -h command output.
> Thanks!
> 
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5              63G   12G   48G  20% /
> tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2              84G   11G   73G  13% /media/windows
> /dev                   63G   12G   48G  20% /.dev
> none                  5.0M  2.8M  2.3M  56% /dev
> 
> 

Simplest way is to use gparted, which you can install via synaptic.

John