[ubuntu-za] Ubuntu 9/04 install - resize partition option missing

[Morgan Collett]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:33, Trevor Hughes <linux at thewildfig.co.za> wrote:
> I am trying to get Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a friends laptop. I
> defragged the C: in Windows XP Home and ran a chkdsk /f which found
> and fixed some errors.
>
> I booted up Ubuntu 9.04 using the USB boot option and statred the
> install. When it comes to the partitioner part, it correclty
> recognizes Windows XP home as being intallied on hda1 with just 8mb
> free space.

Correctly recognises Windows, but is the 8MB free space correct?
There's no point in freeing up 8MB for a Linux partition... so I think
the installer is correct in not offering you a resize if that's what
it thinks is free...

Perhaps there is something marked as immovable at the end of the disk?
You should be able to see that in defrag, even if you can't do
something about it... IIRC the Windows swap file can't be moved.
Perhaps that can be deactivated and deleted and defragged again.
http://www.mytechguide.com/156/how-to-optimize-virtual-memory-swap-file-in-windows/

> The only options I get are to use the whole disk (with the warning
> that WIndows will be removed) or to use the biggest area of free space
> or to manually partition.
>
> The option to resize the windows partiton and install Ubuntu side by
> side is missing. I went to the advanced option thinking there might be
> a way to resize and I could not fins it.
>
> The NTFS partition mounts fine while running the Live USB session
>
> Is that option missing from 9.04 - I remember installing 7.10 next to
> Vista flawless and it resized the partition automatically.
>
> I guess I am going to have to boot up the usb and used gparted to
> manually resize before running the installation.
>
> SO I basically want o know is htis a problem with this NTFS partition
> or has this functionality been removed.
>
> Thanks
>
> trev
>
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