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On Monday 15 December 2008 00:00, Grant Sewell wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > > 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 > > Hi Rob, > > That's exactly what I want to do. I know it's possible, I was just > wondering if anyone has had any scare stories. Currently my lappy is > booting Ubuntu, BackTrack and Vista - I was planning on removing > BackTrack (I'd love to remove Vista, but it's unfortunately useful for > Microsoft training). As in: "Waste half your life learning this heap of doo doos and then MS will change it all around again and pretend its an upgrade" Thats not training, thats M&S training: deception! Tom te tom te tom > > Grant. -- 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