can partitioning be restructured or must I start over

[Karl Larsen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Allen Meyers wrote:
>   
>> Snapshot resides at http://s427.photobucket.com/albums/pp352/76yrold/
>> My question is can that unallocated space in the 2 places be combined to create a new partition. As a side note what about that extended 17.85 GiB that info says is busy (at least one logical partition mounted)
>> I know shows what lack of comprehension can do!!
>>     
>
> You're lucky, all your Unallocated spaces are adjacent.
>
> You need to resize the extended partition (sda3).  Once the extended
> partition takes up the entire space, then you can resize your last
> logical partition within to grow it.
>
> You will likely need to do this from a boot cd, such as the Ubuntu
> install disk, or knoppix.
>
>   
    The resize is done with fdisk or other partition tool. You can do 
the re-size from the computer, but you need to put a file system on the 
new partition. This you must do from another place because you can't put 
a file system on a mounted partition.

Karl


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