Resizing

[Nils Kassube]

Stephen wrote:
> The first time I resized the partitions windows used chkdsk and
> resized the partition after I signed back into windows. Here is the
> new readout. 
>     Device Boot     Start       End    Blocks  Id System
> /dev/sda1   *         63  838836223 419418080+  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

That looks good now - there is a gap of ~27GiB between sda1 and sda2. 
Now you should be able to expand the extended partition to the left 
(from a LiveCD using gparted). You can then move the swap partition sda5 
to the left and expand the Linux partition sda6.


Nils