Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Rogelio Nodal]

Rogelio Nodal wrote:

> Charles Malespin wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 10:59 +0100, Thomas Beckett wrote:
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>>>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
>>>    
>>>
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>>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 
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> It should be ok. One thing I know is that if you add a new partition 
> you will have to re-configure the boot-loader.
>
> -r

Never mind my message. Sorry about that.

-r