Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Tony Arnold]

Charles,

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?        

I think I would use a system booted from CD to do this job such as
Knoppix. That way you don't have issues about mounted partitions.

You could then move /dev/sda3 to start of the unallocated space, and
then hopefully move sda4 down and resize it to fill the remaining space.
You should then bbe able to create a logical drive (sda7) in the
extended partition.

I'm assuming here that extended partition can be moved and resized like
ordinary partitions, but I'm not sure on this. Other posts seem to
indicate not, but that may be because a logical drive (e.g., the swap
partition!) inside the extended partition is mounted.

If you do not need sda3, then delete it, and then move and resize sda4.

Also, if you do not need all the space on the disk, leave some
unallocated. It can come in handy.

HTH

Regards,
Tony.
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