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Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > My laptop's current partition structure is as such: > Disk /dev/sda: 160 GB, 160039272960 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 1 8678 69706003 7 HPFS/NTFS > /dev/sda3 8679 17903 74091780 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 18153 19457 10474380 5 Extended > /dev/sda4 17904 18152 1992060 82 Linux swap > /dev/sda5 18153 19457 10474380 83 Linux > > If I were to remove the swap and Extended partition, and re-create the > swap at the end of the disk, thus leaving approx. 10GB of unpartitioned > space between the existing Ext partition and the new swap... if I were > to do that, would I be able to successfully resize the existing Ext > partition to absorb this 'left-over' space? Have any of you had > problems resizing Ext3 like this? > > Cheers. > Grant. > Do you mean you'd want to remove /dev/sda5, /dev/sda4 and /dev/sda2 then increase the size of /dev/sda3? I wouldn't have thought it would be a problem as long as they're not mounted. You could probably do it with gparted on the System Rescue CD or maybe an Ubuntu/Fedora/etc live CD. This guide will may help: http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions I'd suggest backing up any important data first though if you have got room on another hard disk or some other media just in case. Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html