Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Vram]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 13:52 -0500, Charles Malespin wrote:
> > I think you are in luck....
> > 
> > 
> > Looking at your fstab...
> > 
> > I don't see /dev/sda3
> > 
> > 
> > So delete your current /dev/sda3 and make the large
> > partition /dev/sda3..
> > 
> > 
> > Old table
> > #####################3
> > 
> > 
> > /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
> > 
> > 
> > So the new /dev/sda3 would be 65.5 Gig
> > 
> > 
> > All you have is root and swap
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Am I missing something??
> > 
> > Can you post
> > 
> > df -h
> 
> 
>  df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda5              63G   11G   49G  18% /
> tmpfs                 506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/sda2              21G   11G  9.9G  51% /media/windows
> /dev                   63G   11G   49G  18% /.dev
> none                  5.0M  2.8M  2.3M  55% /dev
> 
> 
> Where does the /dev/sda3 come from then?  I know(think...)
> that /dev/sda4 is my extended partition.  Sorry, this is all new to me
> so I am trying to learn as fast as I can.  Thanks!
> 
> 

Sure enough.

You are not using /dev/sda3...

You can delete /dev/sda3.

And recreate /dev/sda3 

I would do this by had using fdisk /dev/sda

Then format /dev/sda3 using

mkfs.ext3  /dev/sda3


Then create a mount in the /etc/fstab and you are good to go.


Vram




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