help with partition

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>wrote:

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

Christian, what if I were to resize sda2 (8.10) from within 9.10 and then
load 8.10 and rezie 9.10 from within it?  I checked to see if that would be
allowed and it would and would then get me backto where I started from.

thanks

gary
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