Resizing ext4 partition

[Wade Smart]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 17:08, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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Steve. This got it. I stopped swap and it worked great.

Wade

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