Resizing ext4 partition

[Steve]

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:01:31 -0000, Wade Smart <wadesmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 23:21, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wade Smart wrote:
>>> Just a while ago my computer just froze up.
>>> My /home folder was 100% full. Crap!
>>> I booted using live cd and started gparted. I am unable to resize my
>>> home partition.
>>> I have a lot of free space but, it only shows like a few megabytes for
>>> the /home partition to grow.
>>>
>>> Wade
>>>
>>        Hi Wade you need to try Gparted again and select the extended
>> partition. Now with Gparted choose to make the extended
>> partition much larger to include all the unused space on your
>> hard drive.
>>
>>        Then go back to your Ubuntu partition and choose to enlarge
>> it to say 20 GB. This is now possible.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
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>
> I have gparted open.
> /dev/sda2 is selected. It is extended partition. It has a set of Keys
> next to it... Locked?
> The only option is Information on any of the menus.
>
> Wade
>
Is it unmounted, sometimes habe had disks remounted when using Gparted.

-- 
Steve