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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostThanks for this. Being a Linux novice of sorts I do like my GUI tools, especially when it comes to doing things like moving and resizing partitions. This walkthrough made my head hurt, talking about drive geometry and stuff. Is there an easier/less technical/less error prone way?
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Originally posted by darmstadt View PostI don't know anything about Gparted but I would have originally created the partition using an LVM based setup which allows you to do that. If its an ext3 partition then you can resize it using resize2fs and these instructions are pretty good:
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions
If its a reiserfs have a look at resize_reiserfs (man resize_reiserfs)
Some partitions are reasonably easy to resize but others can be a real pain as they have to be unmounted which is where a live CD comes in useful.
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I don't know anything about Gparted but I would have originally created the partition using an LVM based setup which allows you to do that. If its an ext3 partition then you can resize it using resize2fs and these instructions are pretty good:
http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resi...xt3_partitions
If its a reiserfs have a look at resize_reiserfs (man resize_reiserfs)
Some partitions are reasonably easy to resize but others can be a real pain as they have to be unmounted which is where a live CD comes in useful.
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How about newfsing it and mounting it as /data or something?
I might be wrong but I think with gparted you maybe have to create a partition first (as against just empty space as it is now) and then shrink that/grow root.
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How Increase Linux partition size
I am booted on my Ubuntu live CD running GParted, staring at my screen in disbelief. I have 167 GB of unused HDD space I would like to increase my root partition to use. Eeeeeeeeeeeveryone on the web says to use GParted, the thing is the resize / move option does not allow you to INCREASE only decrease which is no chuffing good tbh.
So how would you Linux boffins achieve this? Any help very gratefully received.
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