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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). > > Grant. > Well I've not had any issues with gparted myself, even re-sizing NTFS partitions. I'd suggest taking a backup though if you have anything important on there 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