Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Vram]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:00 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:59 +0100, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> > As others have pointed out - its easy enough to resize your NTFS
> > partition and extend your ubuntu partion into the free space. Your
> > ubuntu partition is sda5 so it is a logical partition anyway. When you
> > resize your NTFS partition smaller, you will then need to resize the
> > extended partition to fill the space and then the sda5 to fillthe new
> > space inside the extended area.
> > The next point would be that I personally would never have my root
> > partition so big. why do you need so much space for your root
> > partition. If it is to store for example music and video files or
> > anything else that isnt part of the system then id recommend creating
> > another partition in the free space instead and putting them in there.
> > You can then mount this partition in /home/data or wherever else you
> > want (/mnt/data for system wide use for example). That way - if you
> > ever have a problem and your root partition is corrupted, you can
> > reinstall Ubuntu and your files will still be there in the other
> > partition, its also wise to have your /home directory in a seperate
> > partition for the same reason, but moving it once you have it on the
> > root partition is a little more involved so ask again if you want help
> > with that.
> > 
> > Tom
> 
> 
> Hi all thanks for the help so far.  One last question...  So I currently
> have my windows NTFS partition mounted so that I can access music etc.
> from there.  Do I need to run "sudo umount /mnt/windows"  to unmount the
> partition before I can use qtparted on it and resize it?  At this point
> I am very fed up with windows so I am indifferent if I lose some data on
> that side.  But my linux side will be ok because Im not doing anything
> except adding more space to it right?  Thanks, 
> Charles 
> 


Yes, umount the partition before you resize it..

Vram
>