Resizing the HDD

[native]

I've decided to dual boot between Vista & Gusty Gibson - since i wasn't sure of my love for the latter.

the lappy have a 80Gig HDD which i assigned 5Gig to Ubuntu - but i want to increase my linux Hard drive to be much bigger than Vista as i still have 40Gig still spare.

Any ideas how can i go about increasing that free space from Vista to Linux

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Ubuntu should have qparted as well - use that to increase your partition size.

Note : Haven't done that, but gives the advice on the assumption that qparted will do the job. :/

 

[native]

ta the_Librarian

i will try it just now

 

[chiskop]

Yeah. Does Vista still require defragging? Defrag the Vista partition if you can - then use qparted to resize the partition. Though thinking about it, yo u won't be able to resize the ubuntu partition while it is still mounted. You may need to use the ubuntu liveCD to resize the ubuntu partition, or something like Gparted.

Will be doing something similar this evening - gods I'm such a nerd.

 

[pmbellis]

I've decided to dual boot between Vista & Gusty Gibson - since i wasn't sure of my love for the latter.

the lappy have a 80Gig HDD which i assigned 5Gig to Ubuntu - but i want to increase my linux Hard drive to be much bigger than Vista as i still have 40Gig still spare.

Any ideas how can i go about increasing that free space from Vista to Linux

An exact repost of my 2c earlier this month ...
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/dow...generation.htm

Actually a boot manager, but has brilliant partition management utility.

Download the 30 day trial (less than 1Mb) & then use the MakeDisk.exe to create an ISO image. When you are prompted to choose between Boot Manager and Partition Work, choose Partition Work.

Burn the ISO to CD & boot from it ... it's pretty self explanatory.

I've used it for years and have NEVER lost data, I even lost power in the middle of a partition move operation once & the software actually recovered from it perfectly.