<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.1.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:25:31 +1100 David Collins <<A HREF="mailto:david.8.collins@gmail.com">david.8.collins@gmail.com</A>> 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. > <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779">http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779</A> > > 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 > > > > -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [<A HREF="http://counter.li.org/">http://counter.li.org/</A>] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [<A HREF="http://keepingdreams.com">http://keepingdreams.com</A>] </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>