Resizing ext4 partition

[Karl F. Larsen]

Wade Smart wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 00:12, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Wade Smart 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
>>>>>
>>>> Â  Â  Â  Â 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.
>>>>
>>>> Â  Â  Â  Â 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
>>>
>> Â  Â  Â  Â Are you saying you cannot make the extended partition larger?
>> Forget the keys and try to do it.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
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> 
> The keys indicate its locked, like steve just said... "Busy(at least
> one logical partition is mounted.)
> 
> Steve, how would you unmount the disk?
> Im on live cd. The unmount option is grayed out.
> 
> ... ah. Its swap. I turned swap off and Im trying now.
> 
> Wade
> 
	Good God! Your not even on the extended partition. I quit!

73 Karl


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