Thanks, Roy. The part about the unallocated being adjacent is the part that was missing.. The live cd of ubuntu 10.10 does not have gparted on it, but I as able to download it. Might try PartedMagic. Jim
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Roy <[email protected]> wrote: > Work from the Live CD since you cannot work on a mounted file system. Use > gparted in your distro's live CD or a distro dedicated to this such as > PartedMagic. Once you are in your Live CD do not mount the partition. Open > the partition editor such as Gparted and select the device in the menu. > Then > it will display the partitions is a graphical ribbon. Right click on the > partion you want to resize and increase the size in the drop down. You can > only do this if the unallocated space is adjacent. If it is not adjacent > then you will have to add the step of moving the partition so that it is > adjacent. Then hit apply and wait till it is complete. I tend to only do > one > thing at a time. eg. Move then Apply. Resize then Apply. This is only > because I have had more success this way and it saves time in the end. > > Roy > > Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit > Location: Canada > > > On 12 January 2011 20:06, james_jolin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I know this topic came up awhile ago, but I looked in the archives and I > > could not find an answer to my particular question. > > I went into Windows XP partition and resized Windows so I would have a > new > > chunk of unallocated space for linux. I brought up Ubuntu and ran gparted > > and saw the new unallocated space. Now comes the tough part. I know I had > to > > do this without mounting the harddive so I took the live cd and ran > > that...also downloded gparted but I could move the ext4 partition into > the > > new unallocated space. So, how do I do this?? > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! > Groups Links > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
