Hello,<br>You can, also, have a look at: <a href="http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/partition-your-hard-drive-without.html">http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/05/partition-your-hard-drive-without.html</a><br>Best Regards,<br> Alberto<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/12/23 David Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.8.collins@gmail.com">david.8.collins@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> 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.<br> <br> 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 -<br> * boots up faster (not relevant in this case)<br> * 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.<div> <div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br> <br> <br> 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" target="_blank">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" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org/</a>] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [<a href="http://keepingdreams.com" target="_blank">http://keepingdreams.com</a>] </pre> </blockquote> </div></div></div> <br>--<br> xubuntu-users mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br>