Extending use of my USB drive

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Fri May 8 13:54:07 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 9:44 AM, allen meyers <texas.chef94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Presently I confine the use of my external to a huge data partition
> which I unmount and unplug after use.
> What I want to do is use it as well for a 2nd Linux OS and I merely want
> to be sure I am leaving nothing undone.
> My thought was to insert gparted live CD and resize external and
> install. Is there something I am missing.
> Please advise

Sounds like exactly the right approach to me.  Note that you can't
resize it while it's mounted, and backups are always a good idea.

> I can only hope the tone of my request evokes no further comments on
> that thread.

:-)

Brian




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