If that doesn't work, unmount the swap partition. To do that, select the swap partition, then select 'Swapoff' under the 'Partition' dropdown. It's in the same place on the menu as the 'Unmount' command.
If you are using the swap partition, and the swap partition is inside an extended partition, you won't be able to resize the extended partition. Ray Drouillard On 01/12/2011 09:53 PM, James Jolin wrote: > > 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] > <mailto:linuxcanuck%40gmail.com>> 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] > <mailto:james.jolin%40gmail.com>> 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] > <mailto:LINUX_Newbies-unsubscribe%40yahoogroups.com> & you will be > removed.Yahoo! > > Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > [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/
