Resizing

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/03/12 21:04, Stephen wrote:
> On 10/03/2012 9:46 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> On 11/03/12 11:06, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 10/03/2012 4:33 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>> Hello I'm using Ubuntu 10, 11. I originally set it up in a 40gb
>>>>> partition on a windows xp drive. I wanted to give more space to the
>>>>> ubuntu partition.
>>>>> I shrunk the windows partition by 30 gig, and tried to make the linux
>>>>> partition larger but it wouldn't let me because I couldn't unmount
>>>>> the partition.
>>>>> So I booted from a live disk and started gparted. All I could do was
>>>>> shrink the linux partition it wouldn't let me make it larger.
>>>> Can you post the output of the command
>>>>
>>>> sudo fdisk -l
>>>>
>>>> in a terminal? That might help us determine the reason for the 
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> One idea: Could it be that your Linux partition is a logical partition
>>>> within an extended partition? Then you should first expand the 
>>>> extended
>>>> partition and afterwards you should be able to expand the Linux
>>>> partiion.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Nils
>>>>
>>> Thank you for your response.
>>> I tried again.
>>> 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.
>>
>> You cannot expand an extended partition if it is taking up the rest 
>> of the HDD which hasn't been assigned to primary partition which in 
>> this case is the Windows installation.
>>
>> Could you please provide the FULL output of fdisk -l - ie , whatever 
>> shows up immediately below this command (and which will show the size 
>> of the HDD etc etc).
>>
>> BC
>>
>>
> sorry I thought that was the whole listing I did it again. Here is the 
> complete readout.
> Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x54ca54ca
>
>    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
>
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x000aa6b3
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1              63   976768064   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>
> There must be some way to resize the logical drive and then I can 
> enlarge the linux part. There are two swap partitions because I 
> re-installed ubuntu with the command to use linux partition. I guess 
> it just used the linux partition and created a new swap partition 
> instead of using the swap partition that was already there.
>
> Thanks
> Stephen Oulton.
> <stephen_o at rogers.com>


Here, read this. Hopefully this will solve your problem - or at least 
get you on the way :-) :

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1479879

BC

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