how to adjust the partion size of ubuntu 6.06?

[zhihang wang]

Then what I should do now?

On 7/7/06, Alexander Skwar <listen at alexander.skwar.name> wrote:
>
> 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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zhihang wang
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