how to adjust the partion size of ubuntu 6.06?

[zhihang wang]

If I use the partition magic to resize my partition, will the data of linux
be lost?

On 7/8/06, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/8/06, zhihang wang <zhihang.wang at gmail.com> wrote:
> > When I start from the live cd and I use the command mount to see where
> the
> > hda3 is mounted, I find that the hda3 is not in the mount table. But
> when I
> > use the gparted I find all the partition are locked. Then I use the
> command
> > sudo umount /dev/hda3 to umount hda3, but it failed. How can I umount
> the
> > hda3? I change the size of hda4 and I find I can only enlarge the hda4
> by
> > free space *FOLLOW* this partion. I want to use the space before this
> > partion to enlarge hda4? Is it possible for me to do that?
>
> PartitionMagic will do what you need, but it's a commercial program
> which you must buy. It's quite cheap and very, very useful, though.
> Powerquest wrote it, but now Symantec own them, so it's from them that
> you buy it.
>
> However, whatever you do, I suggest that you remove partitions 5, 6
> and then 3, then recreate them, so that the logical order matches
> on-disk order. Out-of-order partitions can cause great problems with
> Windows and indeed with PartitionMagic and other tools.
>
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Best Regards
zhihang wang
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