Resize XP partition for more Ubuntu space

[Charles Malespin]

On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 12:33 -0700, Vram wrote:
> 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.


Just to make sure...  I opened qtparted and when it lists all the
partitions it labeled my /dev/sda3 partition as /boot, but Gparted didnt
label it at all... Error with qtparted?  It was 101.98 Mb big.  I can
delete this?  I should delete this via qtparted(or Gparted), then do the
fdisk /dev/sda command.  Then do the mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda3 command?  Sorry
I got lost there.(I feel really dumb asking all these questions...)
Thanks again, 
Charles