manual partition table

[Trevor Nye]

Gnome partion editor can expand an area on the drive....,
you can use the install cd and use it ftom there System>Admin>gnome.....

HTH
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek Broughton" <news at pointerstop.ca>
To: <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 7:57 PM
Subject: Re: manual partition table


> Erik Schmidt wrote:
>
>> is it possible to use the manual partition table on teh ubuntu
>> installer to reintegrate two partitions?
>
> Do you just want to take, e.g., partitions 2 & 3, turn them into a single
> partition 2 and install a new filesystem on it?
>
> Then, yes.
>
> If you mean you want to combine two partitions into a single one with all
> the data from both partitions, not easily!  The simplest way is to back up
> both filesystems, delete both partitions, create the new partition, put a
> new filesystem on it and copy back the backups.  The harder way is to
> backup both partitions, delete partition 3, grow partition 2 to fill the
> space (I know this can be done, I don't know if the partitioner on the
> Ubuntu installer is capable), grow the _filesystem_ to fill the partition,
> and then copy the files from partition 3 onto it - most of which you can't
> do from inside the installer.
> -- 
> derek
>
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