manual partition table

[Erik Schmidt]

well, it might be easier if I tell you what I'm trying to do

I installed ubuntu onto a ten gb partition, I want those ten gb back  
on my main file system, the file system on which I am running mac osx

is this possible to do?  or am I stuck with ubuntu?

On Feb 5, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Trevor Nye wrote:

> 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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