help with partition

[NoOp]

On 11/28/2009 01:33 PM, 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?

Yes. No.

Yes, boot from a liveCD and use gparted to resize the partitions.
No. Do not mount the partitions.

*Warning* back up your critical data before messing with partition
resizing et al.