Re: [SLUG] Partition Space

From: Jim Lange (botbot@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2006 - 18:17:29 EDT


On 8/31/06, Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunally, in a hast to install Linux, I used an extended partition
> > instead of LVM to do an install. After a couple of months my / partition
> > is filling up. I have added extra space but is there a good way to
> > convert the extended partition to LVM or increase the partition size of
> > the / partition with out losing everything?
>
> Actually gparted will non-destructively resize partitions, provided
> you have the space to do so.
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm

I agree gparted works great! Only a 30M download for the bootable ISO.
I've even used it on NTFS partitions, usually to delete a D partition and
expand a C partition with no problems.

Jim

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