help with partition

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Christian Schult <cschult at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hello Gary,
>
> Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
>
> > I have two versions of ubuntu installed, 8.10 and 9.10.  I want to reduce
> > the amount of space allocated to the partition on which 8.04 is installed
> > and allocated to the 9.04 partition, which is getting tight on space.  I
> > have studied various tutorials and I have been able to reduce the size of
> > the 8.10 (sda2) but can not access it from 9.10 (sda4).  Do I need to do
> > this from a live version of gparted and is it just that I need to mount
> it?
>
> I guess you did this while running Ubuntu 9.10 (sda4). Boot Ubuntu 8.10
> (sda2) and expand /dev/sda4 from there with gparted. /dev/sda4 has to be
> unmounted while resizing it.
>
> Christian
>
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I did this while running 9.10.  I then saw i couldnot do what I wanted to do
within 9.10 so I ran 8.10 but could not make sda4 much bigger than it
already is.
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