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 <linuxcanuck@gmail.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 <james.jolin@gmail.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??
> >
> >
> >
>
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