how to expand space for more softwares

[Colin Law]

On 6 February 2011 05:30, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> I keep installing various softwares on my Ubuntu desktop.Right now I
> am stuck up with space problem.
> I have some partitions which are being used by other OS but they have
> plenty of space free.
> It is mountable/read/write happens.
> I am not clear if I have to expand space for more installations then
> /opt
> /usr or /lib or /etc which directory and how should I go ahead to give
> them more space.

You can move and resize partitions using gparted.  Download and boot
from a live CD of gparted (or you can run it off the ubuntu live cd I
think), then you can shrink the partitions that have space and make
the partitions that are too small larger.  Backup well first of
course.  Do not try and resize while running off the partitions you
are trying to resize of course.

Colin