Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Sep 21 00:39:16 UTC 2005
On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 17:39 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > > >
> > > > 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.
>
> Ok, I installed the ntfsprogs package and was able to take the 60 Gb off
> the windows partition. Now I have this
> /dev/sda1 Fat16 63 Mb
> /dev/sda2 Ntfs 20.5 Gb
> Unallocated 65.5 Gb
> /dev/sda3 ext3 102 Mb
> /dev/sda4 extended 67 Gb
> /dev/sda5 ext 3 64 Gb
> /dev/sda6 swap 2.5 Gb
>
> But I cant resize my extended partition so that I can use the free space
> that I just made.... Am I missing another package, or what? It tells me
> in Gparted that the status of my /dev/sda4 is busy(at least one logical
> partition is mounted). Any help?
>
You are
Between a rock and a hard place...
You need to delete sda5 and sda6 and sda4..
sda4 is your primary partition of type extended..
so sda5 and sda6 are on sda4..
I would at this point reinstall ubuntu...
Save all your config files on sda2...
good luck
I will refrain from giving further partitioning advice..
such as separate /var /home /usr etc..
HTH
Vram
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