You can boot your system using liveCD, install gparted, backup and resize your partition. Istimsak abdulbasir <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 1, 2013 7:41 PM, "Bob" <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-qygzanxc@listemail.net">ubuntu-qygzanxc@listemail.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> When I first installed Ubuntu I did not choose the best partition sizes. Now I need to resize them which will require at least moving one partition. There is another system installed and dual booted. I first tried to backup the current partitions. I got a message "Temp space has 11960320 available, backup needs approx 68157440." The temp space seems to be what is free on /home. I could not find a way to change where backup acquires its temp space. I installed gparted and the "resize/move" menu option is not active. I assume this is because I am booted from the partition I want to move. So I am looking for suggestions on how to resize and move these partitions. I have a partition for / and /home along with a swap. My preference is to backup everything and if neccessary do a restore, I do not want to reinstall. -- Robert Blair -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>