Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Brian Puccio]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:22 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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..
> >
> Ok, I did that and when I try to click on the partition in Gparted or
> qtparted it says that it cant read that partition and wont let me resize
> it...  Did I do something wrong or is there something I forgot to do?

The package qtparted recommends the package ntfsprogs. Do you have that
package installed? If not, that's probably what you need.
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