Little Problem

[Rutger van Haasteren]

Karl, please use better subject in your posts.

On Feb 20, 2008 2:28 PM, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>    As I was writing on my paper about using 'fdisk' I discovered to my
> horror that I used it wrong on both my hard drives. Both HD are 160 GB
> one IDE the SATA. When I made the partition /dev/hda4 I didn't make it a
> full size Extended type. I made them both smaller making both hard
> drives have about 50 GB effective :-)


GParted can resize those extended partitions.


>
>    Now I know how to correct the fdisk call and use the whole HD but I
> can't do it without a high risk of loosing what is in the Extended
> partitions.


You will not loose what is inside the extended partition


>
>    So you can re-do the Extended partitions but it is very risky. I
> decided it needs to be done so I copied this Ubuntu from here on the IDE
> to a new partition on the SATA HD which is twice as big as this one.
> This is important because now my Ubuntu is using 85% of the partition!
> Have to fix this :-)


Are you actually already trying to solve it yourself _while_ posting to this
list? Dude, don't bother posting then!

Rutger
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