help with partition

[Steve]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:19:38 -0000, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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.
>
It also depends on where the partitions are on the disk. I think you can  
only extend/shrink a partition from the end  not the start.
-- 
Steve