Re: [SLUG] Of partitions and re-sizing

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2007 - 16:33:57 EST

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 2/4/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:
>>
>> > I resized a NTFS partition on my laptop. The HD is a 50G HD, I had it
>> > split 27G for XP and 23G for Linux. I resized the NTFS partition to 17G
>> > and now want to use the free space for Linux, but I can not access it.
>>
>> Did you create a new partition for it, or did you resize an existing
>> partition (or both)?
>>
> I resized the NTFS partition, leaving 9G of free space.

That free space is on the disk only, not in any partition by default. You
need to resize the Linux partition which you want to be bigger, or add a new
partition in the free space. 

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