how to adjust the partion size of ubuntu 6.06?

[Alexander Skwar]

zhihang wang schrieb:
> I have installed the ubuntu 6.06 on my hardisk. But now I find the 
> partition size is too small for me to install more software.
> The partition is located on the last cylnders. There are some free space 
> in the middle cylinders. How can I use these free space to enlarge the 
> partition?

Easy: You can't! That's the joy of old-style partitioning. You might
want to have a look at LVM (there's an excellent howto at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO>).
With LVM, you wouldn't have such problems - but this won't help you
now.

Now, you've got to go the hardway and create a new partition on the
"middle cylinders". Problem might be, that the partition numbers will
change, if you use extended partitions.

BTW: I understood "middly cylinders" and "last cylinders" to mean,
that you've got a partition at the end. Then one before that. And
before that partition, you've got free space.

Alexander Skwar
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