manual partition table

[Trevor Nye]

do you want to keep the ubuntu area?
yes
I can't help i do not know MAC that well
no
insert the ubuntu cd and boot it
use gnome partion editor and delete the ubuntu partition
expand mac os into the new space

hth
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Schmidt" <eschmidt90 at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions" 
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: manual partition table


> 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.
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>>> derek
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