help with partition

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, if you use gparted it works with both ends. If you shrink a
> partition from the start, gparted would actually first shrink it from
> the end and then move the partition. While it does work, it takes a very
> long time (many hours depending on partition size).
>
>
> Nils
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I was finally able to resize sda4.  My problem was that I did not realize
that in order for sda4 to expand into sda2 I had to shrink the size of sda2
in this case to the left, so that the free space would be next to sda4.  I
did not know this mattered.  Maybe I missed something in the instructions or
tutorials I have been reading.

When I did so I created a partition which was assigned sda1.  From within
9.10 I can look at this partition but can not write to it.  I want to be
able to store data there.  What do I have to do?  Should I have created a
logical partition instead?

gary
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