[ale] Next question-- partition trouble

[Mark Wright]

That worked.  It was a little difficult as Gparted failed when trying  
to resize the partition I wanted to keep so I had to open a terminal  
window and run FSCK a few times.  Also trying to get root on a Ubuntu  
Live CD wasn't as easy as I thought but it works now!

thanks for the help all.



Mark Wright
m.perry.wright at gmail.com



On Aug 5, 2010, at 7:39 PM, cdcoleman wrote:

> Boot from a live CD and use gparted to delete the 8.04 partition  
> and allocate it to the 9.04 partition. I guess you will have to  
> change GRUB configuration so it will no longer boot to the deleted  
> 8.04 partition. The link below should be helpful.
>
> http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
>
>
> Chris Coleman
>
>
> From: Mark Wright <m.perry.wright at gmail.com>
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux! <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Thu, August 5, 2010 8:40:25 AM
> Subject: [ale] Next question-- partition trouble
>
> Next question,
>
> I installed ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop that had 8.04 and some other OS  
> already on it.  The partition software respected the previously  
> installed OSes and only used what was left on the disk to put  
> 9.04.  I didn't need the down level Ubuntu partition but couldn't  
> do anything about it.  Now I am running out of space and want to  
> find a way to get rid of the 8.04 partition and use the space for  
> the 9.04 installation while preserving the other OS that is being  
> tolerated due to proprietary wimax hardware.
>
> I have been reading up on grub and gparted but am not seeing what I  
> need.  I think I should be able to erase the pointers to the  
> partition with Grub then suck that space into the other Ubuntu  
> installation with Gparted.
>
>  Any partitioning experts?
>
> Mark Wright
> m.perry.wright at gmail.com
>
>
>
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