[xubuntu-users] Re-Partition My Harddrive

[Alberto Zeni]

Hello,
You can, also, have a look at:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/partition-your-hard-drive-without.html
Best Regards,
Alberto

2008/12/23 David Collins <david.8.collins at gmail.com>

>  Good question.  You're right - now that the Xubuntu Live CD has Gparted on
> it and it is almost the latest version.  Yeah, use that.
>
> I already have GParted Live on CD and on a USB stick, so I use that without
> thinking.  I can still think of 2 advantages of using the GParted Live CD -
> * boots up faster (not relevant in this case)
> * Recently I was working on some old server hardware with hardware RAID.
> Ubuntu didn't recognise the disk setup, but the Debian-based GParted Live CD
> was fine - GParted started up showing all the logical disks that has been
> created on the RAID set.
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 14:45 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:25:31 +1100
> David Collins <david.8.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Evan,
> >
> > Using the GParted Live CD, you will be able to 'Grow' your partition.
> > Of course, to give you the usual warning - something could go wrong
> > and you could lose all your data - so backup anything important first.
> >
> > (Although, gparted is available in Xubuntu, and can be installed using
> > Synaptic, it is best to use the Live CD - it is the latest version,
> > and booting off the Live CD allows you to work on your hard disk
> > while no systems are running on the hard disk.)
>
> Curiosity - why not use the Xubuntu Live CD, which has gparted
> installed? Applications -> System -> Partition Editor
> All the benefits of the Live CD, and may have been used to install
> Xubuntu so it saves doing another download.
>
> >
> > Download the latest stable release Gparted Live CD .iso and burn the
> > image to CD - if you use Brasero (in Xubuntu) that will be the 'Burn
> > Image' option.
> > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779
> >
> > Boot up off the live Gparted CD.  You will be prompted several times
> > during the start-up sequence.  I use a US keyboard and I can just
> > press the ENTER key at all prompts.
> >
> > You will eventually get a basic windowed environment and the GParted
> > GUI program will be running.  Look around you will see the options to
> > shrink and grow partitions.  Even after you choose to do something,
> > nothing happens until you press the 'Apply' button.  There will be
> > plenty of help available on GParted, itself.
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Collins
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-12-23 at 10:47 -0800, Evan Murri wrote:
> >
> > > I installed a very minimal Xubuntu installation (for dual boot with
> > > Windows 2000)
> > > on an old Thinkpad X20.  Now, I realize that I should have
> > > partitioned a much
> > > bigger partition for Xubuntu.
> > >
> > > Are there any partition programs that are either already on my
> > > installation, or
> > > that I can download and use to re-partition a larger portion of my
> > > hard-drive to
> > > use with Xubuntu?
> > >
> > > Also, where would I find very elementary instructions in using the
> > > program?
> > > Would such a program have all the necessary instructions in a help
> > > file?
> > >
> > > Thank you, Evan Murri
> > >
> > >
>
>
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