Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Vram]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 10:00 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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..
> > 
> 
> WHoa Whoa!  Reinstall????  There has to be another option, I didnt even
> do anything to my ubuntu partition, why would i need to reinstall?
> Perhaps I need to clarify the situation as to what I have done.  I just
> cut 50 Gb out of my Windows NTFS partition, and now it is free space.  I
> have 4 partitions already and now this free space.  Is there any way
> that i can resize my extended partition to include this new free space.
> I find it hard to believe that I have to reinstall to do this.  Would
> going into windows and doing it with partition magic work?  Would I lose
> my data in ubunutu in the process? Plus what is my /dev/sda3 ext3
> 102 Mb  partition?  Is that my root? Please help, I was told this should
> be so hard to do!
> 

Well, I will give my $0.02 worth and how the world looks to me.

IDE allows you to have 4 primary partitions...

One of the partitions can be of the special type extended.
And on the extended partition you can create logical drives.

The space on the extended partition must be declared upon creation.
Space cannot <to the best of my knowledge> be added after the fact.

I can't answer your question's about root and /dev/sda3 without seeing
the output from /etc/fstab

Can you post /etc/fstab?


Do you have a lot of work put into the current install?
A lot of data?

Is this a production machine or a learning machine at home?


As an alternative you could try resizing with partition magic from
Windows. I am not familiar with that program. <But, I don't think it
will work> <As usual back up all data, including Windows data, you could
lose everything>


Hopefully, someone else will come up with a better solution.

Good luck

Vram



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