Resizing

[Liam Proven]

On 11 March 2012 00:06, Stephen <stephen_o at rogers.com> wrote:
> Here is the read out from sudo -l
>   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *          63   892377087   446188512+   7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
> /dev/sda2       892379134   976768064    42194465+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5       973217763   976768064     1775151   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6       892379136   969025535    38323200   83  Linux
> /dev/sda7       969027584   973215743     2094080   82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
> I tried again to enlarge the dev/sda2. Which seems to be a container for all
> the linux partitions. It wouldn't give me the option to re-size it. I tried
> again to enlarge the dev/sda6 which is EXT4 format.

Two things spring to mind:

[1] As Basil says, it does not look as if you have actually shrunk the
Windows partition successfully. How full is it? Have you cleared out
all the rubbish in it (\WINDOWS\TEMP, the TEMP in your user directory,
removed the swap file, disabled hibernation, etc.?) Have you defragged
it?

[2] Yes, sda2 is an extended partition and it contains all the logical
partitions in which Ubuntu is installed. However, it looks to me a
little as if you have got 2 swap partitions there - is that correct?
If so, why?


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